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Start Art 5 44 RT START www.painters-online.co.uk Demonstration: Painting the scene STAGE 1 The sky is the first part to go in. If you scribble colour onto the surface and then wet it, unsightly drawing marks are left afterwards. A better way is to take a sharp craft knife and scrape colour from the stick onto dry paper. I added mostly ultramarine blue with a hint of carmine near the horizon. Start by wetting a small area with your brush and, using a circular motion, dissolve the flakes on the surface. Make sure all the flakes are dissolved before you move on, otherwise you will end up with bits in your sky when the colour has dried. When scraping the pastel will perform best if it is chilled off, using an ice pack STAGE 2 Taking your scrap piece of watercolour paper, use this as a palette. Scribble pigment from all the sticks onto the surface. These can then be wetted, mixed and applied to the paper 1 All the foliage is tackled using this method, starting with the distant trees behind the church. ultramarine blue and carmine mixed makes a good distant tree colour. I vary the proportions as I move across the paper to add more interest 2 The foreground hedge, grass and tree ivy are all painted with a mixture of golden yellow and ultramarine blue. Add more golden yellow for the sunlit greens and more blue for the shadow areas 3 By varying the proportions of golden yellow, carmine and flame red, the buildings are painted in. The grey for the near building and road is made with a mix of brown, blue and a touch of carmine 4 At the completion of this stage, the entire painting is now blocked in with soluble colour