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Add a little water so the paint is lighter. Now make a half of a long flat ellipse or oval that starts at the bottom sky and goes almost to the middle of the page and back to touch the land. |
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Value Now add some more black to your wash and darken the bottom of the page and using water to make the land at the bottom become lighter as you move up toward the island. This creates the illusion of distance when you make the closer things a darker value. |
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You have painted everything that is going in the corners for now, so you can let the picture dry and tape it to the table. This will keep it from curling up. |
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Line Use a scratch sheet of paper, the paint you used for the bottom of the page and the little brush to practice long skinny line strokes that begin very skinny and become the same thickness as the brush. Some people call this the press and drag stroke. |