Spring brings revival to our lives. Everything around comes to life and is filled with bright energy of the sun. How to draw spring with a pencil and paints will be discussed in this article.
Features of spring landscapes
The great masters of the past and the present portrayed the spring as young, sunny and vibrant. In their canvases they used a variety of techniques and techniques. In the watercolor technique, painting with paints on wet paper looks especially natural and realistic, allowing you to transfer smooth transitions of shades. To create their work, artists preferred pencils, watercolors and oil. Let's consider various ways of drawing spring in more detail.
Draw a spring with a pencil
For work, you can use any picture or photograph. If you want, you can go out into the countryside, choosing a suitable place for drawing.
How to draw spring with a pencil:
- At the initial stage of the work, we will construct the composition of the spring landscape on a piece of paper using light pencil lines.
- Draw a horizontal line above the middle of the sheet. We outline the central vertical axis of the location of the main object (bush, tree, house). Regarding it, we will organically arrange neighboring parts on our working canvas.
- Define the direction of light, shadow and partial shade in the work.
- For hatching the light parts of the picture, harder pencils are suitable , for dark ones with a soft stylus.
- Perform the work, starting with less saturated color sections of the landscape.
- Sun glare on trees and clouds is untouched pencil paper.
Image of spring landscape with watercolor paints
Watercolor can be painted not only on white but also on colored paper. But we must remember that paper in this type of painting plays the role of white ink.
How to draw spring in stages:
- If you are in nature, then decide on the choice of place. Take a look at the picturesque trees and beautiful gentle sky background.
- The horizon should not be clearly in the middle of the sheet.
- Mark the outline of the composition with faint pencil lines.
- Do not forget that we perform the work with a gradual transition from light to dark tones.
- After diluting the blue paint strongly with water, cover it with the necessary areas of the sky background.
- Choose colors and shades for the trees. Apply paint to the area of the bushes with a light fill with a brush. Let it dry slightly and add volume to the trunks and branches by applying different tones of brown.
- Distant objects need to be depicted more vague, close - more clear and thorough.
- Mark in green the young leaves on the branches. When mixing green and yellow, most often it turns out bright green. Therefore, it should be made more calm and balanced with sepia or ocher (very small droplets are added).
- Depict melted snow with a slightly bluish tint. Outline with a dark brown tint of paint that are visible from under the snow.
- We finish rare grass blades (if any) under the bushes.
We move smoothly from one tone to another, creating a single and coherent picture.
How to draw spring oil
Oil paints are thick and saturated. But precisely because of these properties, skillful painters at all times created outstanding works of art. Oil work requires certain skills and experience.
How to draw spring, working with oil paints:
- The landscape is performed on canvas or special cardboard.
- The canvas is coated with a special primer. All work will depend on the quality of the soil. You can’t write on bare canvas, because oil paint will corrode it.
- Brushes in painting are used quite hard. There should be many brushes, because they do not wash in the process.
- A palette is used to create the desired colors.
- The presence of a palette knife is required. It is a steel or horn knife, with the help of which they clean the palette, mix paints and remove excess layers from the canvas.
- White paint in oil painting is necessary.
Spring always inspires people to be creative, helping to depict the freshness of renewal and the novelty of the nascent nature. To understand how to draw spring, you need to learn how to observe nature and not be afraid to experiment.