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Watercolor Painting of Elk on a Mountain
Range;
Wyoming or Colorado Ranges, Wyoming Elk, Colorado Elk
Watercolor Elk Painting
$12.95
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Watercolors |
24 Photos, 22 pages
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Elk Mountain is one of the most
peaceful paintings I've ever painted. Because there aren't many
colors to the palette, it remains one of the more uncomplicated
pieces to work on. I've listed it as intermediate only because I
consider it something a that someone, who is more familiar with
working with watercolor, the way it often 'misbehaves' and flows
unexpectedly in places it should not, the way it will mix itself
with other colors on paper etc.,might be more familiar with. However, other than that, because there are so few colors to work with, because it is uncomplicated in subject matter, because it does not deal with planes in perspective, I would really suggest that this is an easy one to start with if you wanted to use this if you were starting out in watercolor. This is quite fun to do! And quite pretty when finished! A really beautiful silhouette design. When framed in a nice western style, it's quite gorgeous.
At the left, I explain how to begin to shape a small tree in the foreground and then, in the next photo, fill this tree out. I will be covered up quite a bit by a much larger tree on the right later, but actually this tree fills a part of the foreground which is a part of what we artists call perspective. We create this by doing several things; changing the size of our objects, as well as the value (the color of our paint) of our objects which creates the illusion of distance.
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