Watermill painted with Pastel

Watermill painted with pastel

In this watermill painted with pastel demonstration if you can think of a stage where there is a front curtain and a bit further back from this curtain there is another one and a little further back another and lastly the back curtain. So we have the large rock in the left foreground in the photo above (Front curtain) the waterfall a bit further back (another curtain)

further back the watermill (another curtain) and finally the background so everything goes back in stages and this is a good idea to the think of a landscape in this way because you will achieves depth in your painting.

Here I started off with the main centre of attention the watermill and I just basically started drawing in the shape of it and the waterwheel.

Everything else was drawn in roughly at first to get a feel for the painting with just basic strokes of the pencil, I wasn't really bothered with accuracy at this time. Once all the drawing had been done I then started painting with pastel again starting with the centre of interest the watermill.

Once all basic colours are roughly painted in I then paint over the existing colours with darker colours of the same colours.

More colours and tones are painted in making sure that the main centre of interest stands out with a bright almost pure white pastel although not standing out too much so as not to totally dominate the painting.

Other colours are added over the entire painting building up colours over other colours and sometimes letting colours show through to give more depth and variety of colour to the painting, sometimes I painted opaquely over colours.

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