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Brusho watercolor crystals are an amazing art supply and well worth experimenting with then using the colors to your best advantage along with any watermedia or mixed media. For this demonstration we will be looking at constructing a winter landscape barn using grey Brusho.
Reference photo from long ago of abandoned barn in snow.
Felt tip sketch (also did pencil sketch on 140 lb cold press Grumbacher Paper 9x12)
Grey Brusho. If you use them, poke holes in plastic top with push pin or tiny nail. Do not take lid off as crystals will scatter.
Sprinkled the grey crystals in a corner of Frank Webb palette. Water will be added with #6 or #8 round brush as seen below.
Start with darkest dark on the paper pencil sketch, wet on dry.
Painting darkest darks, almost looks black, continued for those areas.
Mid-tones next. See how the grey Brusho has separated into other colors. Let dry.
Sky is next using 1" flat synthetic Liquitex brush along with a very small amount of cerulean blue watercolor for that cold, winter feel. Rigger/script liner brush begins parts of bare tree trunks. If Brusho wash is not dark enough (it will dry light) then add more over dry areas of the wooden barn.
Distant trees added with #6 round brush when sky dried, smoothing edges.
Rigger brush adding bare branches with dark grey, then a looser more brown color with rigger laying almost flat, puts in the ground texture seen in the snow. Add details to inside barn such as window panes, boards, etc., not seen in ref photo.
Close up crop of foreground using rigger brush, different strengths of grey Brusho for variation. Tiny diagonal strokes indicate dead grasses. I'll add at least three birds in the sky on right hand side for balance and to indicate life.
Finished Abandoned Barn in Winter
Reference photo from long ago of abandoned barn in snow.
Felt tip sketch (also did pencil sketch on 140 lb cold press Grumbacher Paper 9x12)
Grey Brusho. If you use them, poke holes in plastic top with push pin or tiny nail. Do not take lid off as crystals will scatter.
Sprinkled the grey crystals in a corner of Frank Webb palette. Water will be added with #6 or #8 round brush as seen below.
Start with darkest dark on the paper pencil sketch, wet on dry.
Painting darkest darks, almost looks black, continued for those areas.
Mid-tones next. See how the grey Brusho has separated into other colors. Let dry.
Sky is next using 1" flat synthetic Liquitex brush along with a very small amount of cerulean blue watercolor for that cold, winter feel. Rigger/script liner brush begins parts of bare tree trunks. If Brusho wash is not dark enough (it will dry light) then add more over dry areas of the wooden barn.
Distant trees added with #6 round brush when sky dried, smoothing edges.
Rigger brush adding bare branches with dark grey, then a looser more brown color with rigger laying almost flat, puts in the ground texture seen in the snow. Add details to inside barn such as window panes, boards, etc., not seen in ref photo.
Close up crop of foreground using rigger brush, different strengths of grey Brusho for variation. Tiny diagonal strokes indicate dead grasses. I'll add at least three birds in the sky on right hand side for balance and to indicate life.
Finished Abandoned Barn in Winter
