🍂🌳 Autumn Countryside Watercolor Sketch Tutorial (Patreon)

Our new Friday lesson is here and autumn has officially arrived in our sketchbooks!

In this lesson, we’ll paint a bright and colorful countryside landscape with a beautiful golden tree, a tiny red house in the distance, a stone wall and a sunlit field.

We’ll practice creating a rich autumn tree with loose watercolor brushstrokes, mixing different shades of yellow, orange and green to make the foliage feel lively and natural. We’ll also work on depth in the landscape, add texture to the tree trunk and stone wall, and finish everything with expressive ink details and little splashes of color.

I especially love how warm and cheerful this sketch feels — all those golden colors make me want to paint autumn landscapes all season long! 🍁☺️

As always, you’ll find the reference, tracing template, materials list, and step-by-step video attached to this post.

Get your watercolors ready and let’s paint Autumn Countryside together! 🎨

🎨Here’s the palette we’ll use in this lesson (substitutes in parentheses):

Cadmium Yellow Medium PY35 [Whits Nights] (Indian Yellow PY150 [M.Graham])

Lemon Yellow PY3 [Daniel Smith]

Light Ochre PY43 [Daniel Smith]

Ultramarine PB29 [Daniel Smith]

Phthalo Blue PB15 [Daniel Smith] (Cyan PB15)

Burnt Umber PBr7 [Daniel Smith] (Van Dyke Brown PR102/PBk8 [Jackson's])

Turquoise Green PG50 [Sennelier]

May Green PG7, PY151 [Schmincke] (May Green PG7/PY3 [White Nights])

Azo Orange PO62 [M. Graham] (Cadmium Orange PO20 [White Nights])

Burnt Sienna PBR7 [Daniel Smith]

Cadmium Red PR108 [Sennelier]

Chromium Oxide PG17 [Winsor & Newton]

Share your sketch:

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In our chat 🎨Dream&Draw Club: Sketches & Homework 👉 https://www.patreon.com/dreamanddrawschool/chats (or go to Community > Chats > 🎨Dream&Draw Club: Sketches & Homework)

Watch the preparatory lessons:

Materials video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sketching-80343147

Liner and Pencil Practice video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/liner-and-pencil-80344410

Watercolor Practice video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/watercolor-video-80345551