I did start by this drawing to make the final painting "The Barn"....You might notice...if you look closely, it was made with a pen, I do that most of the time on a first sketch...I don't erase, most of the time I don't even keep an eraser at hand, I just keep drawing no matter what....When the basic lines where on the paper to my liking, I just used crayons and fine felt pens to get some colours going, only then I see if I would like to paint the subject and think about what I would like to change about it, this is really where it start to "imprint" my mind. From there I'm building to the final results working my brain between the original subject and the different drawings made from it. Drawing it over and over makes it easier, for this one on the watercolour paper I only draw the horizon line and the outlines of the barn itself. Then I started painting the cloudy sky, the barn in second, the fields, the trees, the foreground last.
