From the course: The Making of Amsterdam Mist: The Structures

Introduction to Amsterdam Mist

From the course: The Making of Amsterdam Mist: The Structures

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Introduction to Amsterdam Mist

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- Hi, my name is Bert Monroy and welcome to The Making of Amsterdam Mist. Amsterdam Mist is a painting that took me 22 months to create. And for me, the main challenge was to create that mood of the atmosphere, a foggy day in fall, in Amsterdam, to give you the feeling that it's moist and that it's gloomy and kind of overcast. And that's what was important to me and there were many techniques that went into it. The creation of the environment itself and the atmosphere, the trees and all these different elements that make up the scene. Now, what's important here is not what I'm doing, exactly, it's how I'm doing it. Because the techniques I'm going to teach you can apply to so many problems you might be faced with. In this, the first volume of The Making of Amsterdam Mist, I'm going to talk about the structures. Structures like the bridge I'm standing on and everything that went into it, like these railings that you see right behind me, the bridge beyond, and all the buildings that line up the two sides of the canal. And there's a lot of details that go into those buildings, like the doors, the windows, and how all these things were done. We're going to go into detail on how everything was researched and how they were created. Now, you might never have to create a building or a bridge like that, but it's all the steps that are important. I want you to see not what I've done, but how I did it. Because some little solution that I came up with on how to create that particular brick texture for the wall of the canal or whatever, that might be just the answer you're looking for for something you're currently faced with. So let's see how this was all put together.

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