The document provides tips for using watercolor and ink techniques when drawing landscapes. It recommends starting with very light tones of diluted ink and using darker tones only at the end. Light tones should be used to depict objects farther away while darker tones are used for objects closer. Shading can be added to a line drawing with the brush after it dries. The document also discusses using value, warm and cool colors, and chromatic scales to realistically portray light in a landscape.

1. Watercolor and Ink
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. Learn to control the value of the ink by diluting it with water first –
start with very light tones and only use dark at the end

3. In a landscape, light tones recede and dark tones come forward

6. Shading with the brush on a line drawing after it’s dry

9. Try drawing lines with the brush too, you can achieve some beautiful
line

10. Claude Lorraine, ink study, 1630

14. “value’ = the black-and-white
of the color

19. Work from light to
dark, reserving the
white paper where you
want white color
Allow each step to dry
before proceeding to
the next

27. Since color is “relative,” we use warm and cool versions of each color to
enhance the feeling of “light”

28. Chromatic scale
• Light to dark
• Bright to dull
• Warm to cool

29. Chromatic scale to
enhance the
illusion of “light”
Lighter value in the light
Brighter intensity in the
light
Warmer (orangey) red in
the light (vs bluer
purplish) in the shadow