Use your 3/4″ flat wash to paint a wavy line on the base of your mountains. Stroke diagonally down to the base of the mountains (the top of your paint tape line). Just remember to keep enough contrast between the light and dark of the mountain sides.Ĭontinue to fill the mountain peaks with the lighter color on the left. Also, you can vary your colors a bit by adding some more purple to your brush. Note: The base of the mountain on the dark side also sways to the left. You want enough contrast to where the right side of the mountains looks dark and shadowy and the left side looks bright but not white like snow. If it is appearing to bright white, add some purple in it. The color should still have some purple in it because you did not rinse your brush off all the way. Repeat the technique used for painting the left side of the mountain but make the direction of your stroke go in the opposite direction (diagonal to the left). Load the tip of the brush in a small amount of titanium white. Then wipe your brush off but do not rinse. Paint in a diagonal direction down the mountain peak. Add a bit of water if needed so it isn’t that thick. Use either your 3/4″ flat wash or smaller brush (angle or flat brush) to paint all of the right side of your mountains with the purple-gray color. Next, use either your 3/4″ flat wash or 3/8″ angle brush and the purple-gray color to loosely outline the edges of your mountain peaks as well as the diagonal edge that overlaps the mountain next to it. On the top of each of the peaks, draw a wavy line that starts on the tip and goes in a in a vertical direction and then slightly to the left. This will help you with painting the shadows on the mountains. None of the lines on the mountain drawing touch the horizon line. Start on one side of the canvas and draw angled lines that go to a point. Next, use a pencil to draw your mountain peaks. Add more bits of white or black if needed. This should look like a purple-gray color. Mix a purple-gray on your palette by mixing 3 parts prism violet, 1 part mars black and 3-4 parts titanium white. Load your palette with prism violet, titanium white and mars black. The top edge of the masking tape is the center line. Then place masking tape along the center. Let this background dry before proceeding to the next step. You are basically mirroring the top of the canvas (the sky).Ĭontinue to paint down to the bottom of the canvas until your yellow blends to the orange and then a pure orange on the bottom. Then completely rinse your brush of all the paint and start new again! Load your brush with primary yellow and a little bit of titanium white. Your center is the “horizon line” and it should be a bright and light yellow. If needed, measure the center of the canvas (5.5″ if using 11″ x 14″). Continue down the canvas all the way to the center point. Load the brush in titanium white and blend that with the yellow. Go down a few inches with the yellow and then dry your brush off. Leave the top of your sky the pure orange color. Blend the yellow with the orange by applying the yellow below the orange and gently blending up. Then wipe your brush off with a towel but do not rinse. Paint left and right strokes starting at the top of the canvas and work your way about 3 inches down the canvas. Start by loading your clean 3/4″ flat wash brush in cadmium orange hue. You will be painting a gradient of orange that blends to yellow and then blends to a very light yellow in the center of the canvas and then mirrors down to yellow and then orange again on the bottom. Then load your palette in the colors: cadmium orange hue, primary yellow and titanium white. This will help blend the background and ensure the first layer is a thin “wash” of paint. This should be a very thin layer of water and not soaking wet. Then use your 3/4″ flat wash brush to apply a thin layer of water on the canvas by brushing it left and right across the entire canvas.Īlternatively, you can use a fine mist sprayer to dampen your canvas.
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