Goldenrod blooming in the fall.
Fall flowers and foliage can be one of the most breathtaking season sights. Fall scenes are popular with artists for this reason. Fall flowers and leaves are ideal subject matter for beginning artists because they are typically easy to learn and color. Drawing your own fall foliage scenes can help sharpen your artistic skills and create beautiful works of art you can use to decorate your home year-round.
Instructions
1. Determine the types of fall flowers you want to include. To really enhance the seasonal setting, you'll want to include the typical fall leaves associated with the season. Plants that bloom in fall include goldenrod, false sunflower, stonecrop and sneezeweed. Goldenrod is an easy one to start with, and it goes well against a backdrop of fall leaves.
2. Sketch the composition of your drawing. Sketch a tree with nearly bare limbs in one corner of your paper. Draw scattered leaves over the ground. Amid the leaves, sketch in your goldenrod. The goldenrod is characterized by deep green leaves around its bottom and bursts of thin yellow flowers that almost resemble an explosion of fireworks. Sketch these in lightly, using a reference photo to help you get the composition.
3. Color your sketch with bright fall colors: orange, red and yellow for the leaves. Vary the way you apply these colors, to give the scene a fiery fall look. Use yellow color pencil to bring the goldenrod to life. For the green leaves, use a light and dark shade of green and blend them as you color. You can use the edge of an eraser or your finger. Color the tree dark brown, then sketch in lines of black color pencil, and blend it in with the tip of your finger to give the bark shading and depth.
