4. Landscapes
Landscapes provide us with a new challenge - how to paint all those living organic textures that we find in nature.
Here are a few ideas about how to do this.
Here are a few ideas about how to do this.
Grass and shrub
Find out how to paint grass and shrub-land that looks natural and organic. I'll teach you various ways of creating that natural feel and then we will paint a landscape using these techniques.
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Here I will show you how to paint the feel and texture of waves crashing against rocks. We will use various techniques to create the hardness of the rocks and the swell of the sea and the splash of the surf.
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Trees - foliage
There are many ways of depicting leaves on trees, but I want to show you two simple methods that you can adapt to your paintings. Foliage does not need to be complicated and we do not have to paint every single leaf! Learn how to simplify the leaf masses and to paint them in just a couple of washes.
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Trees - bark
The bark on tree trunks varies tremendously with the type of tree, but here I’ve shown you two ways of painting different types of tree trunk which I hope will give you an idea of how to approach the subject.
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