🍂Autumn River Watercolor Sketch Tutorial (Patreon)

Our new Friday watercolor lesson is here!🎨

This time, we’re painting a peaceful Autumn River surrounded by glowing golden trees and deep forest greens.

In this step-by-step lesson, we’ll explore how to create a rich autumn atmosphere while keeping the landscape light and expressive. We’ll work with soft watercolor transitions in the foliage, build depth through different shades of green, and paint reflections on the water. We’ll also add fine liner and white details to bring more texture, contrast, and character to the finished sketch.

It’s a beautiful project for practicing loose landscape painting, layering colors, creating depth, and combining watercolor with expressive details🍁

As always, you’ll find the reference and tracing template attached to the lesson, so you can draw the composition yourself or use the template and focus on painting.

Prepare your watercolors and let’s enjoy a little autumn painting together! 🍂🎨

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

Jackson's Yellow Light PY154 [Jackson's] (Cadmium Yellow Medium PY35)

Light Ochre PY43 [Daniel Smith]

Ultramarine PB29 [Daniel Smith]

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

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

Chromium Oxide PG17 [Winsor & Newton]

Pyrrole Orange PO73 [Daniel Smith]

Dusk Green PBk11, PG7 [Van Gogh]

Share your sketch:

On Instagram with the hashtag #dreamanddrawschool and tag my profile @dreamanddraw.school

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