Misty River STEP by STEP Acrylic Painting

here that one those are very far away so I'm not going to mess with those that are good, okay, I'm going to clean my brush and use the white, okay, use the white and I'm going to mix it a little with this white color and this one and just make a light gray color and create it and add it on top, like apply it with touches there, okay, create like shadow highlights, okay, like that, so I'm going to apply it here so that it fades, okay and then these are going to be even lighter because they're further away okay on this side we're going to make this a little bit lighter okay so I'm going to go back to that gray color and I'm going to cover the blue because this is more like a piece of land, we are not going to have water here.

I'm going to add some trees in the back to make this all work. to be covered by trees and bushes something like that and do the same light gray, go over and just cover that area here and once you covered it we can go back to the darker color and add little stones here by lightly rubbing them and now Here I'm going to create there is a couple of little rocks there, so with the white and a little bit of that gray, I'm going to create a little shadow of the rocks going into the water, we just want it right at the bottom here.

Okay, not too much, very lightly with white in that gray color. I'm going to create some reflections. You can apply some darker spots to create, like maybe there's a rock about to come out, so you can apply some touches and create some darker tones. Here it is. For more depth, I'm going to darken this area, maybe there's a rock here and here they fade out and now this is where you can go back with your detail brush and straighten out some of the shapes of your rocks if you want. you know, and add maybe a touch of little tiny rocks next to the big rock, you know what I mean, you could spend a little time doing that, okay? and then with a detail brush and some white, we'll create some rocks. which are bright here, okay, and go over some of these rocks here, make them a little brighter, okay, I'll switch to my number four brush and soften everything with that gray and white, make it a little less white here. for example, rub it in and try to soften it so it's a little less white, okay, go back to the detail brush and then with the darker one, put some of the rocks that you added in here.

Alright, my friends, you can spend as much time as you want. this part, but let's move on, we're almost done, all we're going to do is add a couple of trees here to balance this image, if you want you can leave it as is, but I want to do this, so this is what we need. I added white sap green viridian and a touch of black the same here black plus black and just meridian and white okay I'm going to mix these and basically it will give me a shade of green neutralize the green because I don't want the you Since this is like a foggy scene, I don't want these trees to just have that green that stands out.

You know, it'll be more like this color, it'll be more like this shade that we mixed, but maybe a little bit greener since it's on top. close, okay, just a little bit more green, but not too much, okay, we want it to look, you know, very opaque and this is going to be our darkest color since it's up close, so I'm going to blend it quickly, but no I want to use it. black because I don't want it to stand out too much, I still want it to be balanced with the image, that's why I added those colors, but it's quite dark, you can't really see it in a video, but it's like a darker gray color, the darkest color. dark here, okay, with those two colors, we're going to add some trees, so we're going to take our flat brush, rub it in the water, same technique, remember like we did with these trees, we're going to start. with the darker color and since they are very close I will have this one on the way.

I wonder if I should have it at an angle, I think I will. I'm going to go all the way up and have it come at an angle like this, okay, something like that, obviously, this is going to be thicker because they're closer together, okay, like this, and then one next to it, right here, we'll have it raised up and maybe right here or maybe one is good and I want to exaggerate. Let me tell you what I'm going to do and see what happens. Maybe this one will be thinner. What if this one will be thinner and fade away somewhere in the rock?

Okay and then of course we're going to have branches that are going to come out of this tree somewhere like this and I'm just using my flat brush because these are actually thicker branches and maybe I'll let them fall a little bit and come out here. , maybe this one is down a little bit and then okay, I'm going to make this have a little less branches, okay, and then this let's go ahead and fade out something like this, okay for now, that's okay, let's choose lift our brush number eight and add the details to our trees, okay, so number eight is the same idea, similar technique, okay, I'll choose the darker color, I'll start rubbing where we think, follow the branches and remember that this tree it is bigger. then it will have more leaves, so this corner will be covered up to here.

I'm going to leave some open spaces in the sky, so let's make this tree, the one behind that one, first lightly rub it with just the dark color, so I'm going to continue with this big one and move down, remember to leave some transparent areas and then on this side play with your brush and make sure it has different angles each time and a few more here going down and I'm going to create an area where it's dark here maybe there will be more rocks and things here once you've added your already you know sketch with a detail brush and water, shake it up and let's create some branches, okay, let's get to this.

Also like we did with these, I'm going to spend some time adding these branches where I want them to be right and these are very close to these branches, so remember there's a little more detail because these are the closest ones. trees, okay, so I'm going to spend some time doing that, maybe this little tree I decided to add a little bush right here, maybe it's little branches or sticks that grow and obviously we're going to connect some of these up here. how well it works, once you have your sketch you already know how it will look so you just connect your little branches to your tree and that's it.

Once you're done adding your details, we can go to the light green and Number Eight Brush and do a similar effect, similar idea to what we did here, we're going to try to add a little bit of color, a little bit, not too much, just rub it in. slightly on some of the keys, okay, creates a good depth, okay, a little bit. Here, since these trees are closer, they have more color than the ones behind, but we don't want to overdo it because it's like a foggy scene, I'm going to fade it out, I'm not even going to go all the way. the path to the top fades out right there, that's fine, so keep in mind that adding just the screen will give a nice sharp look to your trees, and if you went overboard, go back to the darker color and you know, fix it like You can even add a little bit of green here next to the trees where we added right there, maybe there are bushes here right behind it, okay, use a little bit of black.

I'm going to switch to number four and add a little bit of green and black, mix them together and add a little bit here to my grass areas here and we're almost there, the last thing that's left is to add a little bit of highlights and that's it, and I'll show you what I mean. So okay and then add a little bit of white, just white straight out of the tube, you can mix it a little bit with this black or dark and create a light gray, okay, light gray and here maybe we need to dull it a little bit more with uh , the black to make it a little bit darker here on the side because the light is coming from here right on the right side of this tree, we're going to bring it down and fade it like this, skip some areas and add that lighter. color here next, okay guys, I'll finish for today like I said, you could go back to work in the sky, now you work in the mountains, the trees add the water, you could take a break, come back the next day, totally up.

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