From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
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The qualities of light and smokey edges
From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
The qualities of light and smokey edges
(gentle music) - [Voiceover] I'm now going to paint a quick study using the color strings we've premixed, just to demonstrate the different brush techniques I'd use for a winter scene. I'll be using the square edged brush and a filbert brush, some acrylic glazing liquid gloss, and a paint marker for some fine details. In the winter, the hues are very close in tone, so having a soft transition is key. And this is where the glazing liquid gloss can be really handy because it can give us a bit more working time and enable the pigments to subtly blend in to each other. So you see how I'm keeping all the edges very soft together. So if I had this amount of paint on my brush, and I've got to this stage of the painting, I'll then take most of the paint off the brush. So you can see how when I go on then, not much is coming off of it. And then just dip in. So I've just got a little bit of the glazing liquid onto the bristles. Then you can just smoke those edges in. So I'm applying it very…
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Setting a winter tone2m 14s
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A compressed tonal range2m 45s
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A winter color palette14m 45s
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The qualities of light and smokey edges12m 51s
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A warmer winter color palette6m 4s
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Blending colors of atmospheric light7m 11s
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A winter color palette with neutrals2m 51s
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A winter snow scene: Painting the darks12m 48s
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A winter snow scene: Adding blue14m 35s
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