Sunset in Kruger Park, South Africa, creates dark silhouettes.
Africa is the continent south of Europe, with countries like Morocco, South Africa, Kenya and many others. Scientists believe that the first female Homo Sapien was born in Africa, and every person on this planet is descended from her. Facts like this have created much mystery and interest about Africa, and artists have used its landscape as a subject for much art. You can paint your own Africa sunset by studying its vegetation and ecology.
Instructions
1. Draw a horizon line on your prepared canvas using an HB pencil. Draw a horizontal line across the canvas about halfway down from the top.
2. Add a native African tree such as the Baobab, which is found in South Africa's Kruger National Park, to your canvas. This large tree has a distinctively large trunk that can hold up to 40 people inside, and some trees have been carbon dated at 3,000 years old. Draw the contours, or outline, of the tree slightly off center to give your painting interesting composition.
3. Draw another Baobab tree next to the first one. Add tall grass and rocks with your pencil. Also, draw a circle just above the horizon line. This will be your setting sun.
4. Pour paints that you will use into small plastic cups. Mostly you will be using dark brown, black and orange for your sunset painting. Most of the detail of the landscape will be seen in silhouette.
5. Paint an orange glowing setting sun with a medium-sized brush. The center will be slightly brighter yellow. Add darker orange for most of the sky and add dark scattered clouds. The tops of the clouds will be lighter while the lower portion will have the shadows.
6. Paint the land, grasses and the trees dark brown. Keep in mind that everything is in silhouette because the light source, the sun, is setting. The sun is the focus, while everything is in shadow.
7. Add tones, or shadows and highlights, to your trees and landscape. Add blacks to the center of the trees and patches of orange across some of the land and grasses to capture the setting sun.
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