Let's Paint an Autumn River 🍁Fall Watercolor Landscape Lesson by Sarah Cray of Let's Make Art

Join artist Sarah Cray as she teaches how to paint an Autumn River in this easy watercolor landscape tutorial. Learn how to create a landscape scene using liquid watercolor paint, mix fall paint colors, paint a river, and add in a light glare to water. This painting is a beautiful mix of realism and loose painting, and we hope you enjoy painting along with us!

Soak up the natural beauty of an Autumn River in this art lesson by Sarah Cray. In this easy fall watercolor landscape project, you'll soak up the natural, peaceful beauty of this autum

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Chapters & Timestamps
00:00 - Welcome & Hello
00:23 - Steps
00:54 - Supplies
02:12 - Outline
04:00 - Oath
05:43 - Step 1: Sky
08:03 - Step 2: Loose Foliage
17:02 - Step 3: River
22:30 - Step 4: River Second Layer
25:25 - Step 5: Foliage Darker Values
47:35 - Step 6: Finishing Details

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[treehuggingbuddhist]

I am so thankful to Sarah, Keenan and the LMA gang for freely giving us the gift of art! 🥰 Y’all rock my world. Happy Thanksgiving to the entire LMA family. 🦃🙏🏽

[angelagarner]

More landscapes like this please. So fun to get creative with.

[kerry]

You are a great teacher Sarah! I love how you run us though the steps and you explain why you do the things you do! Thank you!

[evaonody]

Amazing 🤩 Special thanks for the detailed explanations, I learned a lot from it, and thank you for sharing 💖

[nfrancone]

I love your tutorials! I have NO watercolor background at all! My first time ever painting.
I got the November box and I this is my 3 rd paint. I cam able to follow you but I have to go back many times. It would be helpful for people like me to let us know in advance some of the skills we need to practice ahead of time and what tutorial to watch. For example how to make trees or leaves. I would practice before painting the landscape. Just a suggestion!
I have been home bound due to a serious foot surgery so I decided to take advantage of this time and learn something new. I am really bad but I have fun! Thanks !

[lemonade]

One of my favourite LMA tutorials, love the explanation on depth and perspective. Thanks Sarah & Keenan, hope to see more of such landscape tutorials in the future!

[elisabruxvoort]

Love this so much! Feels like something I'd see in NC. :)

[christinahutchison]

Great video. I suggestion mention your newsletter I really love it Especially if I miss one of your videos I can go back and look for it and check for new supplies

[dragonplus]

I love the reflection on the river, but I really struggled with the foliage, and the hardest part was making the place where the trees meet the ground look good.

[samibuck]

This was one of my favorite paintings! ❤️

[mandypittman]

This was surprisingly satisfying! And bonus, I just finished another subscription box!

[kevinandvickieamsler]

Sarah, you make everything look so easy and inspire me. I've learned so much from you. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the team!

[gwenanderson]

I may have missed it but what kind of tape are you using here? It seems to lift of easily without tearing your paper. This painting is beautiful by the way. Thanks for this.

[barefacedquestions]

This is probably a very basic question, but what's the purpose of transfering outline with the tracing paper? Is there a problem with sketching the outline directly on the watercolor paper?

[Honoralexandria]

Could you use a larger oval or square brush instead of the round 12?

[hendann]

I love this, but I can't get past the white sky - to me it really needs some sort of at least a suggestion of a sky. How would you add a sky? A light wash ? one of the first steps?