#50 How To Paint a Landscape | Oil Painting Tutorial

See you later boys have a good day bye bye well made it to work i've got to package up three pictures for a gallery in yorkshire which i'm going to do now at least i was going to send them off but now i'm not because i forgot to varnish them okay i've got this back to finish here which i'm going to do now and then i'm going to work my way down into the foreground and then i'll show you what how i'm going to do this foreground here and in particular this area here that's the bit we're going to focus on today but let me get some of that done and then sir bloody siri yes we'll come back to that anyway i'm going to get started on the water so i i'm just building water up here um and although i've put in a coat of paint very thin water down or it's uh i've used a lot of liquid so it's it's very thin the paint i put on so you can see the underpainting underneath and that gives you that sort of transparent feeling to it especially when it's slightly glossy as well and now i'm just going to build up on all these ripples here because it's actually quite a ripply river um and just to give you a swing that around so you can see that's what i'm copying here is ripply but you can still see like the clouds and stuff underneath so that is what i'm going to do now the water is now finished coming up to it's lunchtime now um so i'm going to get the rest of that finished after lunch and also i've got this tree here um that i'm going to put in over the top just to finish it off so that's this afternoon's job but it's going pretty well right so first of all i'm going to work on the grass areas and once i've got the darker areas put in before i do the highlights i'll then put some darker areas in here and then we'll do the highlights all together i wouldn't have thought this would take too long this bit maybe an hour and a half something like that so mixing it's mainly sap green and a little bit of ivory black maybe touch a burnt umber in there as well and i'm using this uh skanky old fan brush that's really stiff and old in fact if i just show you i was going to show you what it used to look well it was a bit more like that obviously not the same brush but that's what it would have looked more like so it's been really worn away but it's perfect for doing this sort of thing just put in the darker areas and i'll do that all over right now i'm going to put in just the darker areas of the path they're not going to be too dark so i'm going to use burnt umber and a bit dioxin purple a little bit of the cerulean blue and i'm going to use that for these bits here just where you've got the bit more shade and just sort of scumbling it on using the same brush for the moment at least in fact now that doesn't work let's try a different brush go back to the mangled piece of it's funny how the older brushes seem to work really well for some things so there's a little bit of liquid in there as well just to so it's not too uh thick it thins out a bit makes it a bit more transparent so using the same brush now i'm going to do the highlights of the grass but i'm not going to use the liquid i'm going to what if i do it won't be much so mixing in the yellow medium yellow there with a bit of lemon and a little bit of sap green that looks pretty much it let's zoom in give you a better a better view of what i'm doing here so just using although there's not much of a point it's going to say the point there's not much of a point i'm going to use that sideways and i'm just going to dab the the paint on whereas with the the um when i put the darker shading on i was brushing it down like that or more i was brushing it down more i'm not going to do that so much with this we want that to be really crisp and vibrant that green especially up here and that gives us a pretty good grass effect at least i think so and now i'll go over the whole grass area doing that changing the colors subtly as we go down because this bit is more in the shade but same technique i'm going to do that all the way now so that's starting to look like grass now it's not finished there's still plenty of extra little bits to add to it you know there's um some darker areas and i'm going to refine the edges just a little bit and make it look a little bit more tufty because as it is it look they look quite blocky but in the photograph you've got more sort of tufty little areas in there i'm not going to work on the path just yet let's try and get the grass to nearer a finished sort of article so now i'm just using this um hog brush here to just sort of define the edges a little bit more and make those bits at the back there seem a bit more sort of tufty and i've put the darker areas on and i'm now just putting the the highlighted bits just on the top of those leaving what looks like a a shadow below and i'll go over some of these areas with that okay so now that's done a little bit of that i'm going to now just put in some individual blades of grass so mix in to get a nice mid green not too cool um and then this is there's no no liquid with this looks like a little bit lighter because we want it to we want the paint to um be quite opaque and thick we want it to really cover what's below it so it stands out all right so grass is now pretty much finished going to get working on the path so right at the very end of the path here i'm pretty much just doing it flat i'm not um doing any real detail there and i'm also using the paint fairly thick because i want it to be have a bit of punch bit of strength if i put it on a little bit too thin then it's not gonna it's not gonna appear that bright because it's going on a slightly darker coat of paint underneath as we come nearer to the foreground i'll do a little bit more detail oh well it's been a long day a very long day it's 4 37 maybe not that long so there we go that's that picture oh let's have a look let's put it on the tripod that's that picture finished i want focus no you don't want to focus so there it is finally finished all that's left to do and i must actually do that now is put in my signature but that's it that's today i'm going to do another i'm going to do another one tomorrow and i'm going to try and upload one video every weekday so you'll get this on tuesday hopefully and i'll see you again tomorrow leave a comment if you and i can't seem to adapt and somebody that you felt the same way since we went i want you give me your wouldn't be the same it's worth the try