Landscape in Bhutan

thomas-dalsgaard-clausen-2015-11-30a landscape in bhutan pen and watercolor

This is all I got around to doing yesterday. A landscape scene in Bhutan, that I found through “random street view” – I’m not that strong in landscapes and it’s something I’d like to improve, so this site might be a way to quickly finding some more or less useful scenes.

I think that this one could have been a little better with more detailing in the foreground. But how do you actually draw trees and shrubs?

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Mountain scene in Bhutan. Drawing in ballpoint pen and India ink based on scene from Google Streetview.

Yesterday, one of my followers on the tumblr-version of onedrawingdaily (his username is Emkinkade) suggested that i might try and mix the “line tools” like ballpoint pen with a liquid tool (I’ve got a bottle of india ink). I tried it on this Bhutanese landscape. I think it looks better the farther away you get … Read more

Watercolor painting of a landscape in Bhutan from google streetview

This month in the virtual paintout is in Bhutan. I picked this view from streetview I actually wrote a couple of lines about how dissatisfied I were with this painting, but noone want’s to hear me whine about it, I suppose. While some things frustrate me, other parts is not half bad. I’m going to … Read more

379 Street scene in Algiers coming out of a tunnel, watercolor

This is from a photo I’ve taken in Algiers, Algeria. It’s a tunnel that leads to the “Place Audin” in the center of the city. Watercolor is a great mystery. As is perspective. And cars too. This is lose, but is it the right kind of lose? Maybe these kind of perspectives need to be … Read more

378 Landscape in Greenland. Watercolor painting for the Virtual Paintout

This is my second landscape painting from Greenland – I didn’t actually go there, but rather I used Google Streetview as per the rules of “The Virtual Paintout” – each month a new location, everybody can participate. Here’s the streetview location link: https://goo.gl/maps/cQPzi This is smaller than my last one from Greenland. It’s especially hard … Read more

375 Mountains, sea and hills in Greenland. Landscape in watercolor

This is a landscape from google streetview in Greenland! What do you think? What could make it better? It’s for the monthly “virtual paintout” over at http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com – go participate! Here is the direct link to the streetview view (although not exactly on a street) – turn just a little to the right, and you … Read more