White Barn Watercolor

Start with these reference images:

With blue hues paint the sky, adding water and no pigment as you go down the page. Start to indicate foliage as you sculpt out the barn shape. This painting will be a predominately warm painting with a touch of cool. Continue on down the page with local from you reference sheet. Let dry.

Start your second wash with mid-tone values. Start to make tree shapes in the background with darker values. Using the edge of a credit card, scrape out some tree trunk shapes and grasses in the foreground. Repeat with the same colors - just darker values - in the foreground. Indicate windows and doors in the barn with darker values. Refer to your value study to see the dark shapes. Let dry.

Your final wash will consist of darker values. The roof, doorway and foreground are going to be your darkest values. Make sure your vertical lines of the building are parallel with the edge of your painting. Indicate some foliage in front of the doorway on the barn, by wetting the pigment and dragging the edge of the credit card through the area. Add some dark limbs and tree trunks.