Watercolour Step 4 Blog

Step 4

Now for your fine tuning: the white of the side of the house is too bright so tone it down with a blue gray tint to push it back. Use this same tint on the colours around the house to settle it in. Give the grass a partial wash in lemon yellow to make it come forward, using also a bit in the right to balance the landscape. Make ragged lines along the foreground to give the impression of plowed fields but dont use brown here - yellow ochre is fine so you dont loose the luminosity. Mute the red of the roof with a bit of alizarin crimson to give the texture of roof tiles. Then use the same red in the yellow grass areas to give the impression of poppies in the field and integrate the colours throughout. Use the violet of the shadow areas under the forground grasses to create more depth.

Now you are finished your work is ready for mounting.....