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Depicting Desert Landscape Backlight Tucson AZ Watercolor Fine Arts<\/p><\/div>\n

Depicting desert backlight<\/p>\n

This is a transparent\u00a0watercolor\u00a0painting on cold press\u00a0wc\u00a0paper. The color scheme is warm. Notice the sky is yellow not blue because the sun is low down and filling the horizon. The veriticals of the saguaro are dark silhouettes against a bright yellow sky with a golden glow along the edges. The mountains of the background are light blue because the atmosphere washes out the intensity of the color.<\/p>\n

To begin, an\u00a0underpainting is done, bright colors wet-in-wet (with no hard edges) which is allowed to dry. Then gradually one\u00a0layers the images of the mountains, bushes, foreground elements (wash on dry), then finally the dark vertical shillouettes crossing the skyline.<\/p>\n

In terms of composition, the format is a long-narrow horizontal to give a panoramic effect. The distant mountains stop the action at the horizon line. The midground and foreground\u00a0are filled with desert palo verde, mesquite, and low grasses. The saguaros become\u00a0the center of interest with the large ones in foreground and smaller ones receding into the distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Depicting desert backlight This is a transparent\u00a0watercolor\u00a0painting on cold press\u00a0wc\u00a0paper. The color scheme is warm. Notice the sky is yellow not blue because the sun is low down and filling the horizon. The veriticals of the saguaro are dark silhouettes against a bright yellow sky with a golden glow along the edges. The mountains of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons"],"yoast_head":"\nDesert Landscape Watercolor Painting, depicting desert backlight<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A summary of Desert Landscape Watercolor Painting stages and techniques used to depict desert backlight. 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