This scene was too much fun to make only a charcoal drawing, so I wanted to make a watercolour as well. As the foggy atmosphere gave the reference picture a monochromatic look already I decided to make a watercolour with Indigo as its only colour.
Of course there are differences between the drawing I made and this watercolour, I do not use a projector to transfer my sketches to the paper.
The difference in techniques and my experiences in them also make a difference, of course.
While painting I decided to change the way the bridge stands out from the background.
More information about this watercolour (size, paper and paint used, etc) can be found at my website www.jannekesatelier.co.nr
Last winter my son and his girlfriend went to see Switzerland - part of it.
They also visited Zürich and managed to make some really nice pictures in foggy weather.
One of those pictures became the inspiration for a charcoal drawing.
As the picture really is hazy, I had difficulties to find the outlines of all the buildings. I usually feel more confident fading lines when I know where they should be in the first place. And I really had to fade a lot as only the left side of the bridge was not hidden in the fog.
As I was working on this drawing, I also wanted to paint a watercolour after the sketch I made using this reference picture. So there is more to come!
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The reference photo for this one was taken by my son Martijn, as he walked in the area of the Pilatus mountain (Hergiswil, Switzerland) last winter. There is even a Christmas tree in front of the chapel! He gave me the name of the mountain, the pass and the village where he had been walking. Looking on the internet made me find the name of the chapel and that there has been a chapel on that spot since the year1567.
Showing a fence and some paths, the composition of the picture needed no modification, I only cropped it in order to get more emphasis to the chapel.
As it was winter, the trees and bushes are bare, only some fir trees are still green.
The scene is dominated by the birches and their fallen leaves that are giving a nice orange-brown colour to the mountainside in the background.
Painting this scene was fun! As I am not so very familiar with mountains, I thought it would be more of a challenge to me but I did not encounter great problems with this one.
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