Cottage watercolour painting and here you can an horizontal wall three
quarters down the paper which goes right across the photograph
the
same as the horizontal at the bottom of the paper. We need to do something
here and you can see a road to the right of the white cottage so we can
elongate this road right through the wall breaking up the horizontal of the
wall and bringing it out to the front of the white cottage.
First
I draw the composition out the way I want it and don't be afraid to change
things if you think the composition needs it. Here I have altered the
horizontal of the wall to more of a diagonal but not too much otherwise we
would be transforming the composition instead of altering it slightly to our
liking.

Here I've darkened the main parts of the composition which need to stand out
more than the rest which can just be suggested.

Here I wet the sky area with clean water and mix an ultramarine blue,
alizarin crimson and a touch of yellow ochre and drop this colour into the
sky. I'm creating the sky here really because there isn't much sky in the
photograph and its much more fun doing your own thing. You don't need to
paint exactly what you see, it is far better to generalise in what you see
rather than to be too specific.

You can see that the sky paint is still wet so in goes a wet cerulean blue
into it.

The background trees go in while the background sky is still wet, the aim is
to blend just about everything in leaving some areas unblended.
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