Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape

- Hi, I'm Will Kemp, and welcome to the Foundations of Painting: Creating Palettes for the Landscape. I want to show you techniques for quickly capturing the mood and the color palettes of the landscape throughout the four seasons. Once you've discovered the importance of tone and understand the language of color, you'll be able to approach a vibrant summer scene or a muted winter snow scene with real confidence.

Seeing how the atmospheric light of the season effects the tonal values present in all landscapes will give you a range to work within which will then influence your color choices. Once you understand the properties of individual pigments it will give you a really informed choice for the right paints to choose for each for each particular season. From the power of a two color limited palette, perfect for painting winter, to how to mix and balance naturalistic greens, which can be a real major color stumbling block for beginners in landscape painting.

We'll then move on to extending our palette to create warm colors of the autumn that really glow through optical mixes and glazes. And then build our palette even further by introducing more vibrant greens and intense pigments to achieve saturated turquoise blues of summer. By the end of this course, you'd have learned simple brush techniques for capturing a mood, learnt how to assess the different lighting conditions of each season, and how to best match the brush that you're using to the subject that you're trying to capture.

So why don't you join me on this color mixing course to discover how to capture the changing colors of the seasons and how to master mixing naturalistic acrylic landscape paintings.