In this step-by-step tutorial, I’ll show you how to paint an Ice mountain landscape with watercolors. Besides, I made a time-lapse video of my painting process and posted it on my youtube channel. What are you waiting for, follow me!
Take a look at the peaceful, pristine space with the majestic and beautiful landscape next to the white snow. It was also the inspiration for me to paint this watercolor landscape painting.
Materials Needed
Paper: Strathmore Watercolor Paper 300gsm watercolor paperÂ
Pigments:Â Here is a list of the pigments I used:
Naples yellow, light Red, and Raw Umber, Naples Yellow, Indanthrone Blue, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ocher, and Sepia.Â
Brushes:Â calligraphy brush, Rigger Brush
Other:Â HB pencil, Pallette, Water bucket, Drawing boat, Masking tape.
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Reference Photo of Watercolor painting
As I said, you’re not a slave to photos, feel free to make your own views. This photo looks a bit boring, I will increase the contrast and saturation by using warm colors in the foreground and darkening their values. This contrasts with the cold and high-value colors in the background, allowing the painting to look much more attractive.
Watercolor landscape tutorial of ice mountain Sep-by-step
1. Make a Sketch
A good sketch is a foundation for a watercolor painting. That is the step where I arrange the composition, perspective, proportions, and balance.Â
2. Paint the Sky of Ice Mountain landscape painting
Use a Flat brush to add a clean water layer down into the sky area of the paper. Right now, apply a light wash of Naples yellow (with lots of water and a few pigments ) as the first layer of Sky.
While the color is still wet, paint the second color on the top of the sky area with Intrathrone Blue and let it flow down naturally.
Next, add Mejillo Blue to deepen its value, do it while the paper is still damp.
3. Paint the Mid-Ground
At this stage, use a color group that includes:Â Naples yellow, light Red, and Raw Umber to suggest the first slight layer of mid-ground.
4. Develop the details of the Ice mountain
Use Indanthrone blue to paint the shadow of the snow, you can add a touch of Red violet to enrich the value.
5.Add a shadow for the mid-ground
Back to work with the mid-ground, apply a group of Burnt Umber, Yellow Ocher to paint its dark part.
6.Start to paint the details of the foreground
At this stage, I start to paint the details of the foreground. To make the background stand out, I use low-saturation colors and dark values in the foreground. I achieved this by blending Burnt Umber, Yellow Ocher, and a touch of Sepia.Â
Refine some of the overall details of the painting before finishing
I refine some of the overall details of the painting. The painting is done, so we have a beautiful watercolor landscape painting of Ice mountain.
Hope this guide is helpful to you. To understand more, watch my video on the landscape watercolor painting process on youtube.
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