Well we finally chosen a place to paint
this particular area struck be the moment I saw it's filled with beautiful
nipples yellows
Alizarin Crimson this area is called twenty Mule Team
and we'll get into that a little bit later but let's go ahead and get
started
I'm gonna take burnt sienna cobalt blue and squeeze it on my pallet
What I'm going to first do is is cut my canvas into three sections
and what I want is the main composition to be in the center part in my painting
I see little pathway
okay what I'm doing is an now getting a little bit more
of a dynamic sketch an little bit more positive with
harder lines as I get into the corner my painting
I wanna apply a little bit more cobalt blue in the corner
I want to darkened the corners of my painting and then more white as I get further than
now notice Im just scrubbing my color in
what we want to do right now is want to capture all the little
footnotes up where the highlight is at this very moment
throughout the pain in the light is gonna be changing
and it would be almost impossible for us to to make
all those changes as the afternoon wears on what I wanted to someone put some
footnotes right where the light is at this very moment
now when I'm going to do them going to notice where
these highlights are
in my composition and I'm just gonna place them in and scribble
very quickly okay these long lines of light
I'm bouncing around and I'm just giving
myself an idea where the light is. What I want to do right now
is actually start on the main peak right
at this very moment the main peak has beautiful cast
of cerulean, blue cobalt blue a little bit of alizarin crimson
kind of a purplish tone and I want to try to get that
in my painting and I'm gonna do that by taking cobalt blue
and white and alizarin crimson I'm gonna
very carefully at this point start laying in the shadow sat on my mountain
at this point we are not going to waste one brushstroke
every brush truck counts we're past the sketching phase
and we're now in the painting phase so what we're doing is we're taking a
mixture of Blue and
yellow I'm and a lot a white and creating a greenish tone
all of these different
tones makeup Death Valley. Now I'm gonna take burnt sienna cobalt blue
these are the same colors that are used in the background mountains
and I'm going to place a little shadows
every one of these little tiny highlights has to have a shadow
and it's important to make
everyone in the shapes a little bit different. At this point I'm gonna switch
to larger brush
and we're gonna start painting in the bushes. We're going to take cobalt blue
in a little bit of yellow ocher and this is a very dry brush compared to what we
were using before
probably one yellow ocher me if you notice
I'm hitting my brush into my pallet
I'm actually trying to break the hairs up so that I can create bushes with
this brush
now we're going to take this color and we're gonna keep in mind that the bushes
in the distance or smaller
this is just like the rocks
things that get feather away from you they get smaller
Now as the bushes come closer they need to get a larger
now we're going to put a little bit a highlight on. What I've done as I
mixed little bit more white and this color and we're just gonna put a little
light on the topic these bushes
a little bit of light
we can also pick up the palette knife
if you can look at the bush on the right, you can scrape in
few little twigs...