From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape

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A winter snow scene: Adding blue

A winter snow scene: Adding blue

(very soft piano music) - [Voiceover] So once I've got this dark tone established, I'm just gonna lighten it slightly by adding a little bit of the darkest of the neutral grays. And this is with the size six filbert. Make sure you get this edge here of the tree so that you've got that silhouette shape on the edge of your canvas. Now I can just jump to the next tone along. So this is the neutral six. Just add a little bit of the blue to that. So just by using these tones to start with, they just give you a nice base for the paining, and then you can just subtly tweak them. So slightly warmer on the tree on this left-hand side, so I'll just put a tiny little bit of the burnt umber in with it. And use that same color in the rest of the painting, where you've got all these warmer areas. Get a bit darker, jump down to the next darker gray. Now we can start off with the lightest gray tone, the same neutral eight that we put the background color onto. And then just add some of the blue to…

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