Painting watercolor landscapes is a fun activity. Besides, the great thing about learning how to draw forest streams with watercolors is that you also learn how to draw streams, rocks, trees, and many other things that make up a forest stream in watercolor painting. Therefore, this is really helpful when painting other landscapes as you will learn some techniques and experiences in the process of painting this forest stream watercolor painting.
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How to Paint the Forest Stream
To paint the stream in the forest, I divided it into four different features: the sky, stream, rocks, and trees. In fact, watercolor landscape paintings can be painted in many different ways with different themes. However, in this tutorial, we will draw a forest stream in a peaceful, cold and quiet setting in a remote forest. In conclusion, this will hopefully give the painting a unique and interesting feel.
What Materials Will We Need
Mijello Mission Gold Watercolors :
Pigments: Jaune Brillant no.1, Mijello Blue, Ultramarine light, lavender, Shadow green, Permanent yellow deep, Naples yellow, Prussian Blue, Opera, Payne’s gray
Paper: Baohong Artist’s watercolor paper cold press 300gsm
Watercolor Painting Tutorial- Forest Stream
After sketching the outline of the forest stream onto watercolor paper, fix the sheet down onto a flat board by using masking tape. Firstly, I started the landscape painting of a forest stream by creating a sky.
Step 01: Painting the Sky
01. In the first stage, we’ll start with the sky. By using a flat brush to apply a layer of clean water to the area to be painted on the paper. This means I am preparing for the wet-on-wet technique.
02. While the paper is still moist, Use Ultramarine Light to Paint the Sky. Save those white spaces of paper as clouds.
03. Before the paper dries, By using light washes of Payne’s gray to paint the dark side of clouds. Painting with a wet-on-wet technique like this will create a nice smooth blend of colors.
Step 02: Painting the mountain and forest range
04. Begin by painting the mountain and forest range in the far background. The trees will be painted in three phases, The value increases slowly from light to dark. The first layer of paint will be light, the second layer should be mid-toned, and the final layer will be dark.
Step 03: Painting the Stream and rocks
05: In the same way, we continue to paint the water and the rocks. And use the wet-on-wet technique to draw water flow. In addition, keep the white of the paper to express the water bubbles as well as the far background of the stream. I use Lavender’s diluted paint.
Step 04: Painting the trees in the foreground
06. After the paper has dried. In like manner, we paint the trees in the foreground. Simultaneously, By using a knife to scratch the watercolor surface while it is still wet to create branches.
07: After the paper has dried a bit, use paint taken directly from watercolor tubes. I am using the tip of my brush to dab paint on the paper to create the foliage of the trees.
Finished work
As a result, I hope you enjoy this watercolor painting. If you are looking for inspiration with a landscape idea, Paint anything about the landscape that you love. And so, try to paint them the same way as the painting above!