From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
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A spring landscape: The underpainting
From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
A spring landscape: The underpainting
- So for our Spring painting, I've chosen this beautiful meadow scene. It's got this lovely strong yellow through the mid-ground of it, it's got the great dappled impressionistic flowers in the foreground, and this really nice shape of the tree, and some nice dark greens to add depth into the background. For the first stage of the painting, the base pigments I'll be using are Titanium White, Burnt Umber, Cadmium Yellow Light, and Ultramarine Blue. I'll also use this square edged synthetic brush, and a size 45 palette knife. I'm going to use the palette knife for mixing my colors, and also use it for adding thick layers of paint toward the end of this stage of the painting. So you could do one or two ways with the color ground. Either towards yellow and green, or blue. But because we're going to be painting using impasto marks on the trees, it makes sense to go with a blue background of the sky. This lovely, nice, subtle powdery blue, having that as the ground color and then we can…
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