If needed, mix a little black into the white to dim it down a bit. Next, use your #4 round brush and titanium white to loosely paint a highlight/texture on the right side of the tree. Next, use your #4 round brush and titanium white to paint white marks in some of the tree crevices. Basically, you are painting this the same way you painted the pine tree initially but leaving a lot of the dark showing through.ĭo this for each of your pine trees. Start at the top and make little white marks stroking down. Use your round brush to paint snow on your pine trees. To do this, wipe your #12 bright brush off and load the tip in titanium white and continue to paint more branches. Next, paint lighter color branches with the titanium white. This creates a thin line versus a thick line which requires more brush pressure. To make the branches go thin, release the pressure of the brush. Use the tip of your brush to paint the smaller part of the branches. Start by painting the trunk outline of the tree using the tip of your bright brush. You can, however, use whichever brush you feel most comfortable painting tree branches with. I used a 12 bright flat brush for this tree. Make sure your branches are going around the moon. Then draw large branches that go to the top edge of the canvas and smaller branches that cover almost half of the sky. Draw the trunk of your tree so that the base is about in the middle of the snow area. I recommend you draw the large branch tree out with a piece of chalk first so that you can get the size and placement of it. Keep in mind there will be a large branch tree in the left side of the landscape as well as that fox so make sure you leave enough space for them. Paint a fee larger pine trees on the right. You can also use your round brush to paint small bushes in the distance with the same grays you are using for the trees. Some are dark gray, some are a light to medium gray. You can add more white to your brush to vary the color of the trees. It’s top peak is not much higher than the mountain peaks and its base is just slightly under the horizon line. Start at the top of the tree and stroke down forming a conical tree shape. Load the brush in mars black black slightly watered down with water. Use a #4 round brush to paint your pine trees. This will allow you to create bigger strokes for your moon rings. If needed, switch to a #12 bright brush and use that to create dry brush strokes. Continue to paint circular dry brush strokes around the moon. Then paint dry brush strokes around the moon. Load your brush in titanium white and then wipe it off so only a small amount of paint is on the brush. Then “dry brush” moon beams around the moon. Paint a small circle in the upper left part of the canvas. Use your #4 round brush and titanium white to paint a moon. Paint this second level of mountain range in front of the previous mountain range. Then mix a slightly darker shade of that gray by adding a small amount of blue gray into it. Paint them in solid using the 3/4″ flat wash brush. The peaks of these mountains are not very high and go about 1″ at their highest peak. Paint this light colored mountain range across this horizon line. Mix a light gray by mixing about 4 parts white to 1 part blue gray. Note: Your horizon line is the line that divides the sky and land. Use your 3/4 flat wash brush to paint two levels of mountain ranges above your “horizon line”. Your ground snow area will be dark on the bottom and light on the top. Add more white to your brush as you work your way up. Then blend titanium white into that dark gray color.Ĭontinue to paint in long, wavy strokes blending your gray with the white. This will be the shadowy part of the snow. Use your 3/4″ flat wash brush to paint a hill area on the bottom. Mix about 3 parts white to 1 part black to make a medium to dark gray. The colors mars black and titanium white are to be used for the snow. Continue to add more white until you get to this point. This is how far you will be going down with the sky. Measure about 4″ from the bottom of the canvas. Continue to paint this in left and right, full width strokes. Then paint this white down the canvas so your sky gets lighter as you work your way down. Gently blend the white up into the blue gray. Then, without rinsing your brush, load it into titanium white. Go down about 3-4 inches with this medium blue gray color. Start on the top of the canvas and paint left and right strokes. Use a 3/4″ flat wash brush and mix a small amount of black into the blue gray so that it becomes 1-2 shades darker. Load your palette with the colors: blue gray, mars black and titanium white. You will be painting this gradient with left and right strokes and going down 10″ (leaving 4″ of space on the bottom). This sky is a blended sky that is darker on the top and lighter on the bottom.
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