How to Paint a Lake and Countryside Scenery | Step by Step Tutorial | Oil Pastels Artwork

Hello dear Steemians! Today, I would like to share a detailed tutorial on how to paint a Lake and Countryside Scenery using oil pastels. I actually had something a little different in my mind but I went with the flow after I started to paint and didn't care much about perfection.

Tools and Materials

• Buncho oil pastels
• A good quality artblock that is durable
• Tissue to clean your fingers in case you use the smudging technique
• A 2B pencil to draw
  
  

Step by Step Tutorial

This is a basic drawing of my artwork. I just wanted to roughly know the positions of the details of my painting before I get started.

I wanted to paint from the top areas to bottom areas of the artwork. So, I began with the mountains first. I used the lightest colour I will be working with which is white and painted the right rocky parts to create some highlighted parts on the mountains.

Next, I painted some sand yellow on the mountains. I did paint over some white areas that I painted earlier as well while leaving out the rest.

I painted some prussian blue on the shadowy areas of the mountains. I wanted to blend it with other colours and create a different shade of blue as well, so I didn't paint it all the way.

I mixed some lavendar (light purple) to create a deep periwinkle (a bluish purplish colour). I didn't have it in my collection so I mixed the two colours to create it.

I painted the sky next using some royal blue and sky blue. I also added some yellow and used almond green (whitish green) as my transition colour to blend the blues with the yellow without mixing them. I added some white to the almond green too. It is important to use a transition colour when you use two primary colours so that you don't end up creating a colour that you don't want on your masterpiece.

Then, I moved on to paint the furthest grass area with some olive green and yellow.

Next, I painted some trees using some pine green and forest green. I also added some prussian blue to emphasize on the darker parts of the trees.

I painted the lake using some sky blue and royal blue. I added streaks of white and some green as well to create a ripple effect but not too much because lake is usually made of still water and not flowing water like a river.

Then, I painted the grass area around the cottage of my artwork in some forest green and light green.

I lined the edges of the lake using purple to create some depth. Then, I painted the cottage in mustard yellow for the wall facing the the people who are looking at the picture because this part must be the brightest. I painted some yellow ochre on the other wall so that it looks darker than the first. Then, I painted the windows in yellow and lined them with red. I also added some burnt sienna for the roof and lined the cottage with raw sienna and walnut brown.

After that, I painted some bushes using a few shades of green like forest green, light green and olive green by mostly tapping on the paper. I also used some prussian blue and yellow for the darkest and lightest areas respectively. Then, I painted a little path to get to the lake and some garden areas comprising of pink flowers using many upward strokes to add more colours.

I painted another part of the lake using the same colours I used earlier. I also painted some shadows of the bushes and flowers on the surface of water.

I painted the rest of the artwork which is the closest grass area and some pink flowers. I used some olive green, yellow, pink, rose and magenta.

I added more pink flowers because I wasn't satisfied with the previous amount of flowers.

I added more flowers on the opposite side of the lake too. This time, I used some vermilion red and crimson as well. This is the completed artwork. I hope that you find it helpful in case you plan on making an oil pastel painting. Thank you for reading my post and have a great day ahead!

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