Nature is often the best place to find subjects that have a rich variety of color. Find a photograph of a landscape that you find interesting. Maybe it’s somewhere you’ve been on vacation. Perhaps it’s somewhere you would like to go. Search for a color that dominates the scene. Then use what you’ve learned about color mixing to make an analogous color scheme. If you find a landscape that you like, but it doesn’t have an analogous color scheme, use your imagination to make it into one! Remember, because of our imaginations, artists are not required to paint exactly what they see. Enjoy changing or pushing the colors into the three colors that you’ve selected from a single analogous color group. (1) Find a photograph of a landscape. (2) Draw in the big shapes with a graphite pencil. (3) Fill in the big shapes with color using watercolor pencils directly on the paper. Then, activate the color using water and a brush. Remember to control the water to make hard and soft
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