Step by Step Watercolor Painting: Painting a White Barn Part 2 © 2003-2007 G. Conley

OBJECT: Watch and see how things unfold as Greg paints his way to a White Barn.

Step Seven: Final touches Using a dark mixing of pthalocyanine blue and burnt umber and my 1/2" flat brush I added the texture of bare branches against the sky and over that nasty area to the right of the barn that gave me trouble. I called it done at this point!

	Step Eight: What happened back there? In step 3.5 I painted the woods to the right of the barn...but I drew them badly. I wasn't paying attention and by the time I realized I needed another element in that area the paint was down. I used a stiff #6 nylon acrylic painting brush and a kleenex and lifted the paint with clear water and daubing.

Step Nine: A little patchwork... With a blend of alizarin crimson, burnt umber, cadmium orange, and cobalt blue I quickly plugged a little red building to hide behind the trees. Using some of my sap green mixture I darkened the hill behind the building. I then added some blue to the same brown mixture I used for the branches and re-painted the trunks and branches over the brand new building. Accenting around the bottom I added bits of a fence using a warm gray cobalt/umber mix of paint.

	Step Ten: A final touch...again When I added the far-tree texture most remnants of my lapses in judgement had been obliterated...close enough!

Step Eleven: Finished Painting (Click on image to enlarge) Another one bites the dust. Now that wasn't too bad was it. Not a masterpiece, but a learning experience none-the-less.