In this tutorial you will sketch and paint an arctic wildlife vignette. Freezing temperatures are above ground and undersea. A polar bear roams along the edge of the ice while the beluga whale surfaces for air.
Learn about perspective above and below the sea’s surface, about shadows, highlights, tints and values and paint different shades of white to capture the snowy terrain. Sketch your animals using shapes to achieve the right proportions and then later add texture.
Materials used:
11x14 multimedia paper, pencil, eraser, extra fine point black permanent sharpie, watercolors, white acrylic paint, paintbrushes (small, medium, large), water, white paint pen (optional).
This tutorial is inspired by the art of Nikki Frumkin, a Seattle based plein-air artist.
We will explore different watercolor techniques, learn about depth in a landscape ,creating shadows and highlights, proportions and texture.
Nikki Frumkin’s website: https://drawntohighplaces.com/
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In this tutorial, we will sketch and paint a winter landscape inside a snow globe. Learn about proportions, perspective and aspects of a landscape. Paint with watercolors using the wet-on-wet technique and wet on dry to achieve different effect to give the illusion of glass reflecting.
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In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn to create a watercolor painting of a gingerbread mansion. Learn about proportion, space, lines, texture. Explore watercolor techniques to add depth by layering colors from light to dark, wet on dry, wet on wet.
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