A Spooky Halloween House--Have it Your Way!
This lesson is designed to teach several things:
1. Atmosphere (mist, diffused light, etc.)
2. The "target" method
3. More tips on pen and wash
4. Making the composition your own
Here is the reference photo from Facebook Photo References for Artists. The photographer is William Powell.
Begin with a sketch of the house (I added the front porch and steps) and lightly ink the outline.
The house should be either on the right or left, not center for the effect I'm after. You can draw your own house or another you find interesting.
I am going to show two ways of creating a harvest moon effect.
The first way is to draw a circle the size and placement for your moon. You can put it behind the house or to the right or left. Paint in some yellow and drop in oranges. Let it dry.
Then wet your paper with a large brush. Paint in loosely some yellow/orange in the windows.
Doesn't matter if it bleeds onto the house. Start painting in circles around the moon, beginning with orange. As you move away from the moon, add blue to your oranges, and let it blend wet in wet. (I used French ultramarine, but you can use indigo or any dark blue.) As you get to the outer edges of the paper you will be painting dark grays, over the house and background. ((try to avoid the windows)
This video is sort of what I mean:
Liesl's Artistic Studio
Method #2
Get some gum Arabic and paint it over your moon and dry it. Then start with orange and paint a circle around it, adding blue to the orange as you go around, making a "target" effect. Then remove the gum Arabic with a wet brush, smoothing the edges next to the color, and drop in yellow/orange/brown to create a harvest moon.
Before the paint dries completely, drop blues and oranges into the drying paint where you want some misty distant trees (like on the right). You can just drop in water too, until you get the effect you want.
With a thin brush, draw in some background branches (like behind the house) while the paint is still damp, but lost its shine. You can also score in some branches with a cut credit card or the wooden point of a brush.
When the painting is dry, do some pen and ink details on the house.
Here I used some bat stencils over and around the moon. I painted in a dark tree on the right.
I used penned in some squiggly lines to create the branches in ink.
Finish inking. Add ink to the house or other areas where you want to add some details.
Here are some fun Halloween YouTube's to try:
Paul Clark Spooky Halloween pic (you can download a pattern from his website)
Emma LeFebvre does a cute ghost in a spooky woods
Some pictures from last week's project. Hopefully I got the names matched up with the pictures.
Sarah added jack-o-lantern faces and spider web stencils in the background
Barb B added a loose warm background
Sylvia added some interesting details
Jackie added a loose background
Vicki used different colors of ink
Pam anchored the pumpkins with a dark table underneath
Carol Schell
Meg
Francis
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