watercolour landscape progress.

after a talk with a friend in a weekly art chat i visit, i decided to do an environment/landscape painting. environments or what people often dub as backgrounds don't get as much love in the places i visit. people seam to care more about characters more. so I'm painting a fantasy landscape or an environment if you want to call it that.

firstly i opened manga studio. i kinda use this for sketching and ideas. regardless of the fact this is planning for watercolour. as you can see its very loose something of which its going to retain. based on a piece of stock i found of some mountains on deviant art http://beefstock.deviantart.com/art/beefstockpic0035-29930422?q=&qo=, balianese temples from my photo album one of which i think is of tanah lot (its a temple surrounded by ocean very pretty), balanese palaces along with the memory of a plate i have in my verey bitty pots and pans that are in my mums garage.

next i printed the image out backwards. this is important as when i trece it ont tracing paperand then copy it to watercolour paper the image will be backwards to what i intend it. i clean up the sketch directly onto the tracing paper i also change the mountains in the forground.

next i mask of the building, the path and the litle wooden bridge. once the masking fluid is dry i wet the whole paper and attempt to do a graded wash wet on wet. i can do a graded wash when working wet on dry sadly there was too much water on the paper and the colours run :( i'm going to have to practice this some more. i lifted the clouds out before the paint dried using the tissue. some imperfections have been left behind but the cloud texture will be worked up eventually.

using more of the smale wash i pull the far mountains further forwards washing it over the clouds as i go and lifting most of it back out again. after letting that dry i work on the next mountain area. i repeat this adding more coboltblue to the mix the viridian green the further i get forwards. hopefully this sets the tone of the picture and creates a sense of distance in which i will be working on top of.

tune in next time for more progress of this painting. hapy drawing/writing/whatever you guys do

cherie