Hello everyone! Today I am going to share a post of a painting process that I made today. It is a simple scenery of mountains during sunset.

I chose to paint this because I like going to mountains. I also like jungle trekking activity. Mountain areas are so calming and cool to be because of the weather over there. I am from a tropical country so the weather is mostly warm and once a while my family and I visit mountain areas to experience a different weather. By the way, I also have a mountain view from my home so I can see the sun rising among the mountains from my room in the morning.

Now let me move on to the how I painted this. Below is a list of all the materials I used followed by the process of making the artwork.

Tools and Materials

• a watercolour paper
• watercolour paint
• a small round brush
• a palette
• a container filled with water
• a HB pencil for basic sketching
  
  

The Process

This is the drawing that I did with a HB pencil. It is a very basic outline of the painting.

As I usually do. I painted the lightest colour which I created by mixing two colours. It is like a golden shade with yellow tint.

Then, I painted some orange for the sky.

I added another layer of paint on top. Then, I painted the green grassland. Once I was done, I realized that it had the colours of the Indian flag, which is where my ancestors are from. Someday I would like to visit India.

I gave a darker shade of green on the mountain on the left so that it can be distinguished from the grassland.

Then I moved onto the mountains and gave them a bluish greenish colour. I had to mix them both for this shade.

This is after painting some proper shadows on the mountains so this indicates that the sun is shining from the left side.

I have added another layer of paint on the mountains here. I had to stop at a point as you can see the cauliflower effect was starting to take place. It is something that happens when the paper is too damp and the paint doesn't sit very well on it and we just need to wait it out until the paint dries before adding more layers of paint.

Also, you might have noticed that the mountains look a little different here. I added some uneven edges to them so they look more realistic and not just straight edges. All mountains have rough edges to them. That is part of what makes them what they are.

In the meantime of waiting for the mountains to dry, I moved on to the grassland area and added some yellow and light green in order to make it look warmer and create some degree of contrast between the different regions of the artwork.

I did the same thing with the dark mountain on the left.

Then I painted some diluted purple shade on the top section of the sky to make it look darker. I picked purple because it is like the neighbour colour of all the shades I have used and won't directly contrast any of them like red will.

Here I have added more purple to the top of the mountain shadows. I thought it might create a subtle darkness but not too much like black will.

I also painted the green mountain on the left with more saturated shade of green which includes a darker shade where I had to mix in some brown to achieve the results.

So I was finally done with the artwork. The last thing I did was painting some conifer trees along the mountains on the grassland. I did them in black but I didn't add layers of paint because that might make the painting too dull.

This is the same picture but taken today morning under natural light of the bright sun. It does make a difference right? Nothing beats the brightness of the sun in my opinion. It brings out the colours better and does justice to the piece of artwork.

Thank you for dropping by and I wish you have a nice day :)