Watercolor Paintings of Mountains

Mountains are the classical landscape paintings, I would say. It is very pleasing to paint them and not only that, it is pleasing to view them as well. And they are the most common painting subjects for the beginners and amateur painters like me.

This is the most satisfying watercolor painting of mountain I have ever made. The painting is simple and effective. The roughness makes it look beautiful rather than spoiling the painting and that is what I always wanted my paintings to be like: leaving back the roughness and carelessness without leaving the awkwardness! The trick to this is to withdraw yourself from painting when that 'correcting' instinct starts coming to your mind. The painting will look good in overall and you'll see the areas where you make mistakes so that you can avoid them next time!

This is second painting of mountain in a unique mood and setting, that is, the period just after the rain. This one was done within under 15 minutes of time in a rough and quick style. Because of the simplicity of the scene, and small size of the cartridge it was possible to paint this mountain quickly.

This watercolor painting is the most detailed one among the mountain paintings here. The painting is composed of not only mountains but much more things like the hills with villages, forests, and so on. Therefore, this painting is more realistic and representative of the real landscape.

This painting made me understand the real power of watercolor. The details presented in this painting were neither carefully thought of, nor painted with due attention. However, the details have come out well and that's the specialty of this painting. which is only possible with watercolors. The colors somehow come to fit the scene with watercolor paints!

Feel free to leave your inspiring comments or valuable critics about my paintings below. :)

Rough & Quick Watercolor Adventure!

In this post, I am sharing some rough, quick and really simple watercolor paintings based upon the theme of "landscape with water bodies".

This is probably the quickest and neatest watercolor work, I've ever done. It still took me about 15 minutes to complete this watercolor painting in a small 17 x 14 cm paper. The landscape is really simple, clear and perfect for you to try! The scene is of a lake in autumn.

This landscape is a free hand painting. I made it casually to utilize the leftover paint. The scene in this painting is a riverside landscape.

This is probably the roughest work I have ever done, with very quick strokes of brush. The landscape is not quite detailed and clear but it can be deduced that it is a hilly landscape with rivulet in the focus. It was done in the aggressive mood but was revised to add some more contrast in the picture.

This was also done in an aggressive mood as the previous work! However, it took almost an hour to complete. The paper is larger, i.e., twice the size of the paper used in the above three paintings. The scene tries to portray the scene of a lakeside landscape in two different types of mood, rain and the sun.

How is my aggressive watercolor adventure? Leave your views in the comments below.

Watercolor Painting Practice

At present, I am practicing watercolor painting to excel this form of art. I took a few initiative actions as well in this direction. For example, I went to meet my school level art teacher a couple of weeks ago. I expressed my desire to work further on arts and he consulted me with his ideas and issued a book from the school library for me to practice painting with watercolor.

This is the first painting, I made from the book. The landscape is good, but I overdid it to some extent. I couldn't contend myself in three layers! I was trying to create darkness by repeatedly applying a light color. So, I learnt a lesson that I should determine the intensity of color at the time of mixing it with water.

This is a second painting. Here, except for the mountain, the color is almost fine. The color went too dark at the top of the mountain, where it should be fading and light. Here, I made second kind of mistake, I didn't allow the first layer to dry enough. Since the mountain can be highly contrasting, the first layer should be totally dried before applying the second and so on. I hope to improve this in my coming works.

This painting was made to practice sketching fast with watercolor. This was made prior to the above paintings, although I added a few strokes later.

This one and the following painting are the practice of painting freehand. No outline or sketch was drawn before painting these paintings. My art teacher told me that I should add more colors to this painting, which I think is true. I'll be doing that soon.

This one is also overdone like the first painting. I was never confident with the color. So, I had to repeatedly add color. I have repeated all the mistakes I have made in the above paintings here. However, I am not discouraged.

Another initiative action I took was to search for a good brush. For that, I wandered to all the hardware stores in the town. However, I couldn't find a single brush that was specially designed to paint with watercolor. Nevertheless, I bought one brush because it was quite cheap and it was robust in design. I hope this brush will be useful in my coming works.

Please note that these are practice works. You can also try them out! :)

Simple Rural House Landscapes

The houses in the rural areas are made up of mud, stones and woods using the traditional technology. The roofs are usually made of straw, hay, plant stalks, or stone slates. The walls are mainly stones and mud. Wooden pillars are used to support roofs and first floor. In short, the rural houses have a rugged design and therefore, they look beautiful in the sketches and paintings.

This house in this sketch is very unique in its round shape. This type of houses can be seen in the upper hilly areas of Nepal. This is a very old design of house and it now rarely made. This has perhaps been succeeded by the rectangular designs.

This is rectangular in shape as opposed to the previous one. It is a most common type of build of the rural thatched roof houses.

This is a bit surrealistic looking sketch of hut made by exaggerating its different parts.

This is a common type of hut found in village areas. It is a temporary house and usually, poor people inhibit this type of hut.

This one is among the most robust type of rural houses. The pillars, doors and windows are all made up of hard wood. Similarly, the build of the wall is also strong. And the roof is made up of slate stone. So, this type of house is quite strong in comparison to the houses above.

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