Peace on Earth

Thursday, December 29, 2011

I am teaching watercolor to a small group of students and since they are all interested in painting buildings I decided to do a series of buildings at different eye levels.  This is an imaginary winter scene that started by the placement of buildings in the focal area.  I varied the roof tops and position of the houses themselves while keeping a consistent eye level slightly above the mid-point of the paper.  This is an H shape composition that I use quite a bit for scenes like this.  The color scheme is a simple one.  Burnt sienna and ultramarine, compliments which I nearly always use to capture the gray days of winter. 

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