A Hill in NovaScotia

Many years ago, while in NovaScotia, my watercolor teacher  did a series of sketches of the area.   One of these sketches, shown below, is the basis of the painting I did called, A Hill in NovaScotia.

As you can see, the sketch is quite simple.   According to her, the buildings were atop a hill with the sea beyond.









I decided to make this simple sketch into a painting?  Since I wasn't there,  a lot had to come from searching the internet and using my imagination - a feat in itself.  I knew that to make this look like a hill, it needed a variety of texture and/or something in the foreground.  I decided on both.  I used a series of steps leading up to the right-most building.  I also added a cliff beyond the left-most building with the sea behind.

"A Hill in NovaScotia"  

1.  Sky was done by wetting the area with clean water and dropping in touches of blue.  

2.  The building were painted directly wet on dry letting each area dry before adding a different color.

3.  The hill and evergreen trees were painted using very juicy colors.  I dropped other colors on top, added salt in areas, and blending color out in others.

4.  The stone steps were done with direct painting.