Learning to Draw Autumn: Landscape with a Tree

Autumn - amazing in its beauty time. It is sung in all kinds of art, and not for nothing! Autumn landscapes are full of a very special charm, bright, blazing colors and quiet, pensive at the same time. Not in vain Tyutchev compared it with a meek smile of withering, but Pushkin called the charm of the eyes. Let us turn to this "dull time" and discuss how to depict it on an album sheet.

Landscape with a tree - how to draw?

Drawing autumn is both easy and simple. It is enough to use a small number of colors from the entire richest palette - and the picture is ready. But to convey the mood, a special condition peculiar only to autumn nature, this is the main difficulty. The festival of gold and crimson, permeated with sunlight, and a sense of fragility, the fleetingness of this miracle of nature - this is often perceived this time of year by those who are trying to draw the fall. Let's try to explain how to do it.

• Take the album sheet and light blue watercolor paint the sky. Sometimes you can make it bright blue, just try to make the transitions of the tones smoothened. One of the useful tips how to draw the fall is that when you "cope" with the sky, dab the duck into the water and moisten the painted places, here and there they are specially brightened. Let the paper dry. And then we paint autumn with oil - these colors are more suitable for transfer of bright, juicy, saturated colors.
• Now the tree is working on it. Stepping slightly to the left or to the right, draw an enlarged silhouette of the English letter Y. The trunk is made with a thickening down, trying to realistically reproduce its forms. Then, draw the branches. Add to them knots, layers, diverging in different directions. Try to give the crown dynamism, as if the wind is shaking it. After all, you can not draw autumn in static, this is a very moving season.
• Then the crown. Here you can give complete freedom to your imagination. Use lemon, saffron colors, ocher, brownish or crimson shades. Remember the famous Bunin's "forest exactly painted tower ..." - the familiar lines from childhood will most likely prompt you with original ideas and spectacular combinations.
• Well, the last stage of how to draw the picture "Autumn". To your tree does not hang in the air, you should "plant" it. Think of whether you are depicting grass or naked earth. For the grass, make greens with yellowness, here and there draw brown bumps. After all, it faded, lost its summer juiciness. Just mix the colors carefully so that you do not get the colors in the spirit of expressionists. For example, the combination of green and yellow gives blue and turquoise hues. However, you can depict naked land. But in any case, do not forget about fallen leaves - it must necessarily lie under a tree and at some distance from it, as if carried away by the wind. So your autumn landscape will gain veracity of details and realism of images.
• We sharpen the details. The work is basically completed, some details remain. First, think about what time of day you captured. On this depends on the lighting in the picture. Make a hint in the sun, gilding, highlighting some of the sky, air. Show a hint at the reflection of the rays in the tree crown, reproduce the glare on the grass. More saturated tones, work on the ground shadows from the trunk and branches. For fidelity and dynamism, to give life to the landscape, draw several colored commas in the air - conditionally these will be leaves.

Inspect your creation with a critical look, correct the annoying shortcomings. Allow the pattern to dry. And feel like a real artist!