Digital Watercolour painting tutorial for Summer Walk

Digital Watercolour painting tutorial for Summer Walk:

First two steps are a repeat of using Value Sketches in Digital Watercolours

Illustration No. 3 Summer Walk Demo

This step makes use of the Gel Wash/Wet Blender technique I've outlined so many times. There is a link to it in the sidebar or click here Gel Wash/Wet Blender technique
I'm not really happy with these trees, but no doubt I will get better at them after a time.
I used the Painter default Pointed Simple Water brush quite a bit for the tree branches, trying out different ways of accomplishing the same ends.That's why it's not looking very cohesive. Not a good idea to switch techniques so obviously. The whites added back in with erasing look to regular as well. Should have done it with the Lasso and cut to get more irregular shapes.

Illustration No. 4 Summer Walk Demo

I like the way I left some white edges in this area. It is a bright sunny day, so there has to be a lot of light in the painting. Since it's hot too, the further away trees can look slightly hazy. I used the Skip Allen's Dry Sumi E brush to get some dry brushwork bristles

Illustration No. 5 Summer Walk Demo

This area was done with the Gel Wash/Wet Blender technique. The idea was to have a layer of further away shorter bushes in the value indicated in our Values Sketch. Keep it on the side to refer to. Having it in the document on a layer that is locked is okay because you can turn it on and off or change the opacity of the layer, but it's risky becuae it might get unlocked and dropped and then you can't separate it from your painting in progress.

Illustration No. 6 Summer Walk Demo

Everything is still on it's own layer. I can further adjust the look of these layers singly before Grouping them (to avoid a crash)!
I like to use Digital Watercolours for the base and Wet Watercolours for the additional colour and texture! That leaves the brush choices subject to lots of choices at this point. I am showing you one possible way, but there are more ways than mine to do it.

Illustration No. 7 Summer Walk

I have Grouped all the layers as shown in the layers Palette above. This view also shows how I have reduced the opacity of the Value Sketch layer to 0%.
I could have Closed the Eye too.

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