Step 1. Lightly draw the van a sign post and a suggestion of the horizon. Make sure that your horizon is about one third of the way up the paper.

Step 2. Sky and trees. If you want to add salt for snow affect, get that ready then mix washes of:-
• Ultramarine Blue
• Ultramarine Blue + a touch of Cadmium Yellow (a stronger blue/green)
Wet all the sky area with clean water with a mop brush. Tilt your board then load your brush with the wash. Working with a big brush (No.10 or 12 round) add the blue, working across the paper, just overlapping the last layer of paint as you work down the paper. While this is still wet, add tree shapes into the background with the blue/green colour. Immediately add a few grains of salt here and there (about 20 to 30 grains) LET IT DRY.

Step 3. Foreground. With the wash of:-
• Ultramarine blue
Add streaks of the blue for the shadows in the snow.

Step 4. Van. Paint on to dry paper over the area of the tyres, roof and radiator using washes of:-
• Ultramarine Blue + Burnt Umber (weak blue/grey)
• Ultramarine Blue + Alizarin Crimson (weak blue/purple)
Paint this on to the wings and windscreen as well but wet the paper first.

For the headlamp.
• Cadmium Yellow (very weak)
• Ultramarine Blue + Burnt Umber (weak blue/
grey)
For the writing on the side of the van
• Cadmium Yellow (strong)
Then finally add the red and black areas with strong
mixes of:-
• Cadmium Red + Alizarin Crimson (post office red)
• Ultramarine Blue + Burnt Umber (dark blue/
Black)

Add these colours on to the dry paper leaving the
paler highlights. Build up the dark areas with two or
three layers of the dark tone waiting for each layer to
dry before applying the next. Add these colours on to