From the course: Painting Foundations: Light and the Landscape

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First painting: Using smaller brushes

First painting: Using smaller brushes

From the course: Painting Foundations: Light and the Landscape

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First painting: Using smaller brushes

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(soft gentle music) - So now I've come back to the painting after the initial block in. And I've just put out a couple of extra colors. I've put out some yellow ochre and some titanium white. And that way I can now work still with these base colors. But if any of the areas, say in the middle of the building here, just need a little bit of warming up with the yellow, I can just jump to the yellow ochre. And I'm trying to keep just with these tones to start with before I then reintroduce the extended palette of the pigment straight out of the jeep. So we're going to start with, we can take a tone here. I'm looking here at the shadow tone on the first building. You can try a sample on that. You can see on that right side it's not too bad, but it's definitely too light still. It needs to be toned down slightly. So the darker mix that we've got now, that we used for the foreground of the gondolier, you can add a bit of that into your mix. Do another quick test. Getting better. Still could…

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