Early Morning, Tumut

The artist admired the way the tree, fences and foliage framed the farm in this composition. Once she started to paint, she looked at her reference photograph only rarely.

By Julie Simmons

MATERIALS • Saunders Rough 300gsm paper. • 2B pencil. • Winsor & Newton watercolours: French Ultramarine; Cobalt Blue; Cobalt Turquoise; Brown Madder; Light Red; Raw Umber; Raw Sienna; Aureolion; Quinacradone Gold; Permanent Rose. • Brushes: Number 12 Raphael Sable and a Number 8 Escoda synthetic. STEP ONE I sketched a simple drawing to identify the main shapes. STEP TWO My first wash was from the top down, wet-in-wet. I painted with my board on a 30 degree angle. I wet the sky area, then added a soft wash of Raw Sienna followed by Permanent Rose then Cobalt Blue. I allowed gravity to do the work, allowing the flow to the horizon line; then went straight into the foreground with Raw Sienna – adding more pigment as I came down the page and adding Raw Umber mixed with Cobalt…

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