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Working from a photograph I make a value sketch using 2. 4 and 6b pencils.

This value plan appears slightly darker than it actually is.

I will follow this sketch as close as  I can because the success of the painting will be determined by this.

On cold press watercolour paper I lightly draw the barns outline and a line indicating the horizon.

Then with colour watercolour pencils I draw the barn and surrounding countryside in the local of each shape.

Masking fluid was placed where I needed to save the white of the paper I did this because it would have been impossible to paint around them .

If you look at step four where I have removed the masking you will see what I mean.

Painting wet on wet I apply the first washes to the sky with Ultramarine blue and a touch of raw sienna

Near the horizon dabbing out some of this colour to suggest clouds.

The barn was painted slightly stronger with the same colours wet on wet

And the countryside was painted with Burnt umber. Raw umber.

These four colours made up the palette for this painting.

Any other colour was a mixture from these.

Repeating the same process with the same colours I corrected the values by mixing stronger mixes of ultramarine and burnt umber for the very dark values.

And adding raw sienna in places to make it greenish

The foreground was established with washes of Raw and burnt sienna painted wet on wet.

After  dry brushing the foliage on the trees

 With crow quill steel nib dip pens I created texture on the barn. tree trunks branches and grasses including the old cartwheels

06/21/09