Step 1
Virgin Beauty in Zion – painting of Virgin River and the Watchman in Zion National Park by Roland Lee. I am using a sheet of 26 x 40 Arches cold […]
Step 2
I begin this painting by painting the sky using a wet-in-wet technique. I duplicate the same colors in the river below, and while both are drying lay in the yellow-golds […]
Step 3
Notice how quickly I start to shape the elements working from broad loose passages of lighter pigments to darker values as the painting progresses. It is hard to tell here […]
Step 4
Now things start to take shape as I model the cliffs and place some of my darks in the foliage. From here on out I will be applying successively darker […]
Step 6
Notice how I use negative painting to shape the foliage in the middle ground and a few of the rocks in the foreground. Now I move back and forth from […]
Step 7
As the painting nears completion, I finish up the foreground rock details, the bushes on the lower left and add realism to the water by indicating ripples and current.
Step 8
The finished painting, “Virgin Beauty in Zion”, transparent watercolor by Roland Lee”
