From the course: The Making of Amsterdam Mist: The Natural Elements

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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. In this, the second volume of The Making of Amsterdam mist, I'm gonna talk about the natural elements. What we're gonna discuss is, first of all, the trees. Now, there are many trees that line up the streets. Each one took about 10 days to create. Now, they're massive trees and thing is, that it is Fall, so none of the leaves are there, so all of those little branches had to be created. How were they created? How was the bark created? How were the leaves…

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