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Summary: Painting winter barn accents on snow need to be subtle. Learn how to watercolor paint winter barn snow accents with tips from an art teacher in this free painting video.
Cody Davis is an artist with over 35 years experience in oil, watercolor and acrylic painting. He has a fine arts degree from the University of Texas and 12 years experience teaching...read more
"We've got a large area of white here. What I'm going to do is get some clean water, make sure that your water is reasonably clean, and put in some clean water right up here. It's slightly tan, which is working for us. We're going to put a little violet which is with cobalt blue and rose, we're going to create a little bit of violet that we're going to work in that area. It needs to be real subtle. That's all we're going to need for the entire area. It's going to be definitely wet and wet. We just sort of move it around and then make sure it's in the wet area, then we're going to sort of blot the edges and remove the darker areas. This particular area will work pretty good with the purple in it because it looks like snow that sort of drifted and got broken up. As we go back, there's going to be less detail so we won't need to put too much back there. A little in the front here, soften it."
eHow Article: Painting Watercolor Winter Barn Accents on Snow