How to paint a farm

In this area there wasn't much that you could see but you could just make out that there was some sort of tractor in front of the sheds and so these areas were also just suggested.


 

Here is the painting so far and its always best to stand back and look at your painting to see what needs to be done and the first thing you want to check out is the composition (shapes). Do all the shapes look right inside the whole rectangular shape of the paper or canvas, is one shape looking too large for the one next to it, is there a good balance of colours and tones etc.

 

Now on the right hand side of the painting we need to add more tone and colour to camouflage this area so your eye doesn't go roaming out of the picture, also look at the diagonal fence post which is pointing to the farmhouse and so leading our eye to it. A bit more suggestion to the tractor in front of the shed has also been added.

 

More greys have been added to the sky area and more detail added to the trees and these trees have really been made up because you cant see the  trees against the red bricked houses properly in the photograph but they still look like trees.


 

Here is the finished painting and the original painting had more foreground to it but I cropped this area off to make the farmhouse a bit more powerful and this is another great thing about using pastel if you make your composition too large or too small you can crop it where you want to.

 

Detail of the side of the house showing various colours and textures.

Detail showing the light areas contrasted against the darks of the windows and textured areas. Buy the Landscape painting DVD here >>


 

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