From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
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A spring landscape and lightfall
From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
A spring landscape and lightfall
- When Spring arrives, it brings with it all these fantastic colors for the painter. And it's the perfect season for getting bolder with your brushmarks, your techniques, and your palette. Impressionistic broken color, vibrant greens in foliage, blossoms, fuller tree shapes, and abstract sky holes and moving cloud formations. Green can be the real the Achilles heel for the landscape painter. Especially when you're beginning, there can be a real urge to grab the brightest green you can see and start with that on your paintings. And you're always tempted to add a little bit more yellow to make it brighter, or an even brighter blue. In acrylics, it can be especially dangerous because you're usually working a wet paint on top of a dry acrylic underneath that's already dried off. So it hasn't got anything else to mix into on the canvas to mute it down. This is in comparison to if you were doing a painting in oils where you're often working wet into wet, so that they mix in and mute down…
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