And I'm gonna take a flat brush, and I'm gonna paint some green in here and anywhere that I made. Use an image of the pencil drawing, import it into the Procreate app (or a similar sketching app) on your tablet, and color it. Switch to a smaller brush and start filling in the gaps in between the bigger brushstrokes from before. It was very lightly. At this point you will need to decide which mountain is overlapping which. That's a little too light. I think what I need to do is outline my roads a tiny little bit, and then I'm going to add shrubs to the areas and my sketch Where, um, I indicated them. It helps to water down the black slightly. it was actually pretty easy!! So there were some trees up here, and then, um, I guess, um, dried out land on DSA. Since my canvas was full of orange and red tones, I started with the colors that would make the most impact: the blue of the sky and water as well as the greens. I'm intentionally having my brush strokes show up in that direction toward the road. This painting is gonna focus more on the landscape than the sky. Umm, I generally use an aerosol Matt varnish, but there are ones that you can brush on there. I like to use a light gray disposable paper palette. Um, I don't know a few details to it. This area was a little bit smaller, and I think I made it a little too big when I had a lot of shrubs here on my sketch. Next paint the left side of the mountain with white. Insightful and helpful information well communicated. I like to stipple with a round brush but this would have taken forever to do in this area. Note: my paint underneath wasn’t dry all the way so the gray blended in with some of the underlying blue. Go back with titanium white again and add some more lighter areas where the brightest part of the cloud is. To paint the clouds, I started with titanium white and formed the tops of the clouds. So even if you have no painting experience, it will be easy for you to follow along. Some ripples disrupting the reflections convey the idea of a horizontal surface. Step back and look at the painting as a whole, is anything jumping out at you as something that looks strange? I painted the bigger shapes with a 3/4" flat brush, then moved on to a 1/2" flat and smaller round and filbert brushes for small details. Divide the mountains with a vertical zig-zag line. The white allowed the green to be lighter. I like that. I think that needs to have a little bit more brown in an I'm gonna use a little raw sienna , maybe even a little yellow. tree fan brush technique you can find here, Using The Masters Brush Cleaner To Clean Your Brushes, https://stepbysteppainting.net/2018/04/28/easy-owl-painting-owl-always-love-you/. However, every artist is different, and you can come up with your own way to arrange them. I think it's less intimidating and the colors pop more against the dark color. I have some paintbrushes, some water to clean my brushes. You can click on the projects tab below the video and upload a photo of what you made in the about tab. Looks interesting, haven't painted since I ve had cataract surgery, also in my mid 80s,wish me luck. There were some trees and shrubs, so I'm not gonna go to dark so I can put my darker greenery on top of that later on for my road. Question: I am new to the canvas. To share your painting with me and the other students in this class, you can click on the "create project" tab and upload a photo of what you painted. For the base of the mountain, I dragged the darker color down and then to the left. Thanks a lot Jill, I tried to create a fairly simple landscape that could inspire beginners to give it a try. And if it doesn't lighten up for me now, I'll just wait a few minutes until it's dry and add my highlights a little bit better. See what kind of color that gives me. 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