How to draw when the sun goes down?

Picture selection: the material can be a beautiful moment picture you usually take with your mobile phone, or you can find it online. There are many photographers who have taken very good photos with the theme of sunset.

Material tools:

Pigment: acrylic pigment?

Frame canvas: 30*40cm

Palette: disposable tearable palette paper

Brush: chalk, oil painting pen, size 6 together.

Oil painting knives: one or two.

Detailed explanation of painting: (1) Conception and confirmation of hue.

First of all, get an overall understanding of the picture characteristics, basic tones and colors that you want to represent the sunset. Then, when you have finished thinking and have a clear idea, you can start painting. Sunset like this is warm, mainly red, orange and khaki, so we will focus on these when we color.

(2) Composition

Draw a bold outline of the objects suitable for the sunset in the material with a pencil, pay a little attention to the far, middle and close scenes, and make clear the relationship between primary and secondary. When we take photos as the material, we don't have to describe the scene exactly the same, but we need to add or remove objects according to the needs of the picture to meet the needs of the picture.

(3) laying large color blocks

In this step, we should pay attention to the big and the small, don't pay attention to too many details first, and try to spread out our feelings about the material quickly with a big brush or brush. I use ultramarine+purple+white as the purple-white sky at the top of the picture, and medium yellow+orange+vermilion as the other sky parts; Dark block, red+ultramarine; The overall color of the lake is basically the same as the sky, but the depth changes slightly.

(4) local characterization

In this step, choose the main part to start painting, you can push painting from the visual center to the periphery, or you can choose the position you are interested in to start painting. You can use small and medium pens with transitional colors. Acrylic pigment dries quickly, so we have to "sweep" between the two colors with a pen when it is half dry, which is easy to transition naturally.

(5) in-depth characterization

Before starting this step, you must draw the whole object of the picture. Oh, the picture has produced a great effect; In this step, the main body of the sky is painted with an oil painting knife, and the pigment used is thicker and drier, but it should be noted that the knife painting is only used in the center of the picture and the place where the sky is brighter. This processing can enrich the texture of the primary and secondary thickness of the picture.

(6) overall adjustment

In this step, we should think more, not just add, and adjust some pictures appropriately, that is, do subtraction, not force. Generally speaking, the sunset should be drawn according to the needs of the picture. It is easier to draw "fire" in color, and there are more red and yellow areas, which should be reconciled with some cool colors and complementary colors, such as blue-purple in the sky or gray-blue in the lake.