From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
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A spring landscape: Adding greens
From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
A spring landscape: Adding greens
(gentle piano music) - For the next stage of the painting, I'll be introducing two new pigments, a very intense pthalo green, with a yellow shade, and a permanent alizarin crimson. I'll also be using the size six soft filbert brush, the hog hair filbert, and the smaller nylon round. Here, with this lovely intense green, what I'm gonna do is, just have a little bit of it, quite thin, add a little bit of the yellow into that, and add a little bit of the burned umber. I can just begin to wash that over to start with, to give this little greeny glaze. I can then start to go in heavier, with some of these lovely intense greens. Just a tiny bit of the burned umber just knocks it down ever so slightly, if I don't mix in that green with it. (chuckles) So this is just the cadmium yellow, a bit of the green and a bit of the burned umber. You get this lovely muted green color. So, keeping all these gaps, notice all these little sky holes that I'm leaving. That base ground color is working so…
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