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

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Blending colors of atmospheric light

Blending colors of atmospheric light

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

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Blending colors of atmospheric light

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(soft piano music) - For this study, exactly the same principles apply to get that nice smokey feel in the painting. So I'm using the slightly smaller filbert brush, a size six, alongside the larger filbert brush we've previously used. I'll be using the square edge brush towards the end of the study. I'm just going to start by dipping the tip of the brush into the acrylic glazing liquid, and then just start with the lightest color in the color stream. So for this quick demo, all I'm focusing on is just how to approach painting the smokey background of this scene. (soft piano music) Just dipped my brush in a little bit of water there. So then once the paint's been put on and then we're working over it again, just so I get it nice and smooth. And I'm going to add a little bit more of the warmer color. And more of this muted color at the center. So you see how I'm working it so I'm not going straight to the edge to start with, I'm kind of judging where it's going to be, leaving a bit of…

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