Draw Tip Tuesday - Fall Feast

Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!

Let’s start with a blank page in our sketchbook, water, a brush and watercolors.
I want to make a fal-themed page, so I mix yellow and red to create a warm orange. With that, I draw simple leaf shapes. I am not being too careful - just blobs of color that slightly resemble the shapes of leaves will do.

Then I pick up some brown, and add egg shapes, where-ever it feels right in the white space.
By mixing yellow and blue, I create green, and divide more leaf shapes in the white space that’s left.
One more color: yellow, for small drip shaped blobs.

Let’s leave this to dry.

Now that the paint has dried, the page doesn’t look like much, does it?
I choose a black fine liner. This is a uni-pin 05, but you can use whatever you have.

With the bold black lines, I draw the leave shapes on top of the paint. I am not tracing the paint, but using it as a background color for the shapes that I am drawing.

I do the same with the brown shapes: I make them acorns and add little stalks. For each color, I choose a different shape, to create a playful and loose pattern.

Now this looks fun, but let’s add some more.
for the orange leave I choose to simply add a middle line and some dots.
By crosshatching the hats of the acorns, I add structure,
the green leaves show their veins,
and for the small yellow ones, I add hatching lines in all kinds of directions, creating a little pattern within the shape.

It’s fun, and really simple, and you too, can Make Awesome Art.

Copyrights koosje koene 2014
Music by pascalo

[fazilapatel]

That was a very cute tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing this DTT. I have a question for you, do you use smooth paper (ie hot pressed) for such art? Thank you once again!