How to draw a spring in stages?

Spring brings into our lives an awakening. Everything around comes to life and is filled with the bright energy of the sun. About how to draw a spring with a pencil and colors, will be discussed in this article.

Features of the spring landscapes

Great masters of the past and the present depicted the spring as young, sunny and energetic. In their canvases they used a variety of techniques and techniques. In watercolor painting, painting with wet paper is especially natural and realistic, allowing smooth transitions of shades. To create their work, artists preferred pencils, watercolors and oil. Let's consider various ways of drawing a spring in more detail.

Drawing the spring with a pencil

You can use any picture or photo to work. If there is a desire, then you can go to nature, choosing a suitable place for drawing.

How to draw a spring pencil:

• At the initial stage of the work we will construct a composition of the spring landscape on a piece of paper with the help of light pencil lines.
• Draw a horizontal line above the middle of the sheet. We point out the central vertical axis of the location of the main object (bush, tree, house). Concerning it, we organically arrange the neighboring details on our working cloth.
• Define the direction of light, shadow and penumbra in work.
• For hatching the light parts of the picture, more solid pencils are suitable , for dark ones - with a soft lead.
• Work to perform, starting with less saturated in color areas of the landscape.
• Glare from the sun in the trees and clouds - this is untouched by pencil paper.

Image of the spring landscape with watercolors

Watercolor can be painted not only on white, but also on colored paper. But we must remember that the paper in this form of painting plays the role of white paint.

How to draw a spring in stages:

• If you are in nature, then decide on the choice of location. Look at the picturesque trees and the beautiful gentle sky background.
• The horizon line should not be clearly in the middle of the sheet.
• Mark outline of the composition with barely noticeable pencil lines.
• Do not forget that the work is done with a gradual transition from light colors to dark ones.
• Diluting the blue paint heavily with water, cover with it the necessary areas of the celestial background.
• Choose colors and shades for trees. Apply the paint to the area of the bushes with a light filling with a brush. Allow to dry slightly and give volume to the trunks and branches by applying different tones of brown.
• Remote objects need to be rendered more vague, approximate - more clear and thorough.
• Mark the green leaves of young leaves on the branches. When mixing green and yellow, the bright green usually turns out. Therefore, it should be made more calm and balanced with sepia or ocher (very small droplets are added).
• Picture melted snow with a slightly bluish tint. Dark-brown shade of paint, mark thawed patches, visible from under the snow.
• We finish the rare grass (if any) under the bushes.

We move smoothly from one tone to another, creating a single and complete picture.

How to draw a spring oil

Oil paints - thick and saturated. But it is thanks to these properties that skilful artists have always created outstanding works of art at all times. Oil work requires certain skills and experience.

How to draw a spring, working with oil paints:

• Landscape is performed on canvas or special cardboard.
• Canvas covered with a special primer. The quality of the soil will depend on the whole work. On a bare canvas you can not write, because oil paint will eat him.
• Brushes in painting are quite hard. Brushes should be a lot, because they do not wash in the process of work.
• To create the desired colors, the palette is used.
• Presence of palette knife is required. It is a steel or horn knife that cleans the palette, blends paints and removes unwanted layers from the fabric.
• White paint in oil painting is necessary.

Spring always inspires a person to work, helping to portray the freshness of the renewal and the originality of the nascent nature. To understand how to draw a spring, you need to learn to observe nature and not be afraid to experiment.