Almost Autumn!

 

After a hot and dry summer my chestnut tree is dropping his leaves early - as many other trees do - and the chestnuts are ready to fall off the tree. So it is time to paint an autumnal watercolour painting using my own tree as my model. 

For this painting I decided to make a brown background by letting two shades of brown flow on my wet paper. This did not cover the whole sheet and that is exactly what I wanted.

The composition is made using my two reference pictures. After the initial drawing was made I have used my memory for the colours and because the leaves, branches and chestnuts are painted over the background these colours are part of the end result.

The information about the materials I have used, the size of this watercolour painting and its availability can all be found in my Tumblr blog.