Demonstration Lake District Village Green

You will need

■ Inside Tony's ‘bare essentials’ sketching kit

• Mixed media or watercolour paper 9×12in. (23×30cm)
• A mechanical pencil and soft eraser
• A 0.5mm waterproof fine liner pen (black or sepia)
• A white gel pen
• Travel brushes: flat ¾in. (19mm) and Round No. 10 • Water container
• Paper towel
• A half-pan travel palette with eight colours (a warm and cool version of red, yellow and blue, an earth colour and a ready-made convenience green)

COLOURS USED

Step 1 The big shapes

Using your pencil, lightly and loosely sketch the big shapes, starting with the barn, first the roof then the walls. Add the two shrubs on the  Lightly sketch a ground line, sloping slightly downwards from left to right to give a sense of perspective, and another for where the grass meets the road.  Loosely adjust the shapes until you're happy with your overall layout and that the perspective looks about right.