1. Wintery Landscape with Birch Trees

2. Wintery Landscape with Birch Trees
Attach tape for tree trunks
Tear the tape (don’t cut with scissors)
Trunks should start in the bottom half of the page
Tops of trees go ‘off-the-page’
Attach a few torn strips (branches)
In the upper half of the page
Draw a horizon line across the page (lightly with pencil)

3. Introducing Watercolour
A watery, transparent medium
Pan watercolours require several ‘scoops’ of water to be added (very little pigment is required)
Watercolour brush – holds lots of water!
(Tip: Hold the paint brush just like your pencil in your printing hand!)
PREP… tape down all 4 sides of the FOLDED paper

4. Watercolour Techniques
Wax Crayon
Wet the paper (sky)
Apply watercolour
Know when to stop
Wet the paper (sky)
Apply watercolour
Sprinkle salt
Know when to stop
Wet the paper (sky)
Apply watercolour
Apply another colour
Know when to stop

5. Wintery Landscape with Birch Trees
Use watercolour techniques for the background (sky)
Watercolour
Techniques…
Resist
Salt
Wet-on-wet

6. Wintery Landscape with Birch Trees
Use pale greyish-blue watercolour for shadows
Decide on the direction of the LIGHT SOURCE
Shadow:
Start at the base of the tree
Apply paint in a diagonal line
AWAY from light source
Set aside to dry till next time!

7. Wintery Landscape with Birch Trees
Remove the ‘tree’ tape
Use a DRY BRUSH to add curved birch bark

8. Wintery Landscape with Birch Trees
Paint a fence meandering behind the trees
Add shadows for the fence (same light source!)

9. Wintery Landscape with Birch Trees
Allow paint to dry
Remove any remaining tape
Sign with pencil in bottom,
right corner