Autumn Song

I really liked making my mixed media paintings last week but I fancied a change for this newest painting. 

I love to use watercolours and missed their delicacy and the way the paint puddles onto the white of the paper, so satisfying :)

I thought I'd share with you the stages I go through to get to the final image :)

I did a very quick sketch to see how the bending trees would look swaying to the music, then I drew out the composition with my black Pitt pen. For this I used the 03 size.

Then comes the fun 'colouring in' stage.

I wanted to use the colours of autumn, reds, golds and purples. I like the random way the washes dry, sometimes I'll use salt on the wet paint to get more texture but his time instead of doing this, I used two different colours that could wash into eachother as they dried to get a sort of 2-tone effect for each hill.

Almost done, 

when the paint was dry I added more details with black and white ink on the leaves and the bark of the trees.

Here's the finished piece,

It's called 'Autumn Song' and measures 7 x 10ins. I hope you like it :)

I've just listed in in my Etsy shop. If you'd like to see, please click here.

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Thanks for looking! :)