Autumn Landscape

Session One:
1. Use a 2" x 4" kitchen sponge for this painting!
Wet canvas with water. Wash in sky with Cobalt Blue.

2. Titanium White clouds.

3. Block in dark areas of tree one with Sap Green and Raw Umber.

4. Add a second tree of shorter height.

5. Block in grass area leaving texture.

Session Two:
6. Make tree trunks with Burnt Umber.

7. Warm foliage with medium mixture of Sap Green, Raw Umber, and Cadmium Yellow Medium.

8. Highlights on foliage with Sap Green, Raw Umber, and Titanium White. Leave tree base dark.

9. Create grass with upward flicks and strokes of dark foliage base color.

10. With Sap Green and Yellow Ochre apply areas of dry grass.

11. More areas of dry grass. Connect some of them and vary the size and shape.

12. Place two bushes with Raw Sienna. 

 13. Add Unbleached Titanium for lighter leaves.

14. Enrich the fall colors of the bushes with Burnt Sienna.

15. Add a dash of Purple to bush bases to create shade and shadow.

Session Three
16. Draw trunk of tree in right foreground with Raw Umber and Mars black.

17. Highlight trunk with Unbleached Titanium.

18. With sea sponge add foliage in Yellow Ochre.

19. Highlight with sea sponge in Yellow Ochre and Titanium White.

20. Use same highlight mixture to add very light grasses.

21. Brighten tree foliage with Cadmium Yellow Medium on sea sponge.

22. Shade and shape tree foliage with Burnt Sienna.

23. Add to foliage colors as needed.

24. Sign your name.

The finished painting. Congrats!