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Step 2

As usual I began with the sky wash. In this case I wet portions of the sky and left other parts completely dry. Then I brushed the color into the washes letting the pigment mingle randomly. The [...]

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Step 4

While the ground was drying I move to the mountains in the middle ground laying in loose washes of warm color at the top of the cliffs and letting the wash turn cooler, more red, and finally [...]

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Step 3

While the sky was drying I brushed a wash of clear water across the foreground area and boldly dropped in mixtures of warm and cool colors, roughly indicating shapes of shrubs and areas of red [...]

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Step 6

With the basic underglazes in place I now began to tighten up the edges of the foreground shrubs and add detail to the cliffs. At this point we really get a feel for how the scene is coming together.

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Step 5

A close-up allows you to see the luminosity that comes from allowing the pigments to mingle while the paper is wet. When those dried completely, I cut in the blue cast shadow on the right side of [...]

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Step 7

I finished up by adding darks in the foreground and throwing in touches of detail in the sand area and shrubs. “Red Desert Wonder” 14 x 20 Transparent Watercolor by Roland Lee.