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by Giselle Luske

Step 1

• Draw / sketch a mountain range with a 2B Pencil
• Lay down a wash - wet on dry - of New Gamboge or Light Yellow
• While the paper is still damp, use Bright Yellow for different cloud formations, plus some light orange for the clouds just over the mountain peaks
• Use tissue paper for taking out some cloud shapes, revealing the Light Yellow again...

... let it dry

Step 2

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  Wet your paper again and mix some Opaque Yellow and Mauve (purple) on the paper.
• Use a painterly approach.
• For the upper level of the clouds, use more Ultramarine Blue together with Purple and Payne's Gray.

• Now, just on top of the mountains dip in some more Orange.
• Always watch your yellow sky, it needs to be bright in different shades of yellow.

... let it dry again

Step 3

Wet the whole mountain range, and start on top for your background mountains. They should be a touch lighter than your foreground.

Again mix some Purple - Payne's Gray and Sepia or van Dyke Brown on your palette. It has to look like a wash, therefore it needs to run down to the lower edge of the paper without leaving an edge,slowly fading out.

... dry again

Step 4

Wet foreground mountain and lay down the same mixture, but stronger.

Local Art Classes held in the Gold Coast Hinterland - Tuesday & Wednesday - 9.30am to 1.00pm

Individual structured for optimum creativity. Join in at any time :-)

Copyright © Giselle Luske - 2001