Watercoloring a Loose Lavender Farm Scene

 Hello & Welcome here, this week Linda is sharing a video tutorial on doing a Lavender farm scene. You can see this video here on YouTube. 

I did sketch this scene real loose on some cold press Arches watercolor paper with a water soluble pencil. ( because, that is what is on the table with my brushes) and I knew seeing how wet the paper was in the video I would have to do it from memory like usual so, I did not do a lot of details with it.)

 like so

 This is my first layers of paint while it was wet and I did try to keep the house and those trees near it dry. I also had started out with a regular round brush and remembered that they used an Mop style brush and I did use mine ( my smallest DaVinci 1) and my inner control freak was screaming and it holds an enormous amount of water in that brush.. so, one of the bristles fell into the paint and I haha chased it around with a sharp poking tool on the table and left some pretty big scratches into that paint and then added more to make it look more intentional.

 So, I decided to walk away and let it dry and this is what I came back to.

So I added more paint to the "road" and the horizon foliage line and added some paint to the mountains and the house walls. and I walked away again. 

 

And this is how that dried. and I am debating about if I want to toss it and start over or just keep going but, its now time to load these to the gallery and I feel like it needs a lot more paint to work and I am not so sure I am going to be able to ignore the scratches. So, I am planning to add more to the fields on the right side when I get this wet again. 

 

I think this may take a few more days to finish as I will be driving all day for work tomorrow and I have not done that in a while.  If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.