Our Grandmother Sugar Maple has already started her autumn color show. I sat outside with my nature journal and gouache paints to capture her beauty while her colors were still fresh.
I started with a simple pencil sketch, then painted in the bold colors, starting with the reds and oranges, and building up greens and dark shadows, finishing with the sky and background trees and the meadow plants in the foreground.
Gouache allows you to paint light over dark because it can be applied thickly enough to be opaque. Essentially, any mistakes you make are endlessly changeable, which lends a feeling of freedom any time you embark on a painting.
What's your favorite art supply to use? Try it out in a nature journal! You can use nearly any art material -- aside from oil paints -- to record your observations.
When you're done, you'll have a record of your time in nature that you can return to again and again, virtually saving the beauty of an autumn morning for those dark winter evenings when you long for color.
Whatever the season you find yourself in, there is always something fascinating going on in nature. I hope you'll make a record of it today!
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