Do you struggle with putting snow on mountains while using a palette knife of
course you do that's why you clicked on the video you're in luck
I'm gonna show you an awesome hack that's perfect for beginners that's
gonna get you on the correct path for putting snow on a mountain every single
time while using this all-mighty palette knife let's go!
hey all Wild coming in super strong to help you with an awesome hack video to help you with your
painting adventures first time here hit that sub on like the video leave a
comment all those fun things really helped me out so thank you so much I
think we can all agree using a palette knife and putting snow on mountains is
hard really hard but it's okay because I'm gonna show you a really cool
technique that I started to use when I first started painting that allows you
to actually slice snow onto a mount to give you more confidence with holding
that palette knife with weighted paint on it and then gingerly gliding across
and as you get more confidence and you get the strokes down you can start to
open up that blade which exposes more of that paint allowing you to paint brick
you're not gonna want to miss it so let me show you how I do it I'm talking
about slicing painting on by the way get your mind out of gutter ladies the first
step to making really good snow on top of mountain is to make sure you have
really firm paint now I recommend using Windsor Newton white titanium paint it's
extremely firm but if you already own paint and it's not as firm I show you a
really cool hack which I'll put in the top of the card here I recommend pause
in that video take a look at that before you attempt slicing and breaking your
paint when you have firm paint it's naturally gonna grab onto that canvas
and allow it to roll or cut off and this will allow you to slice across the
canvas with much more ease because that canvas is gonna be grabbing due to the
toothing on the actual canvas itself now to slice paint you follow the normal
steps hold the palette knife like I showed you in a previous video again
I'll put a link on the top of the card and pull your paint flat slice across it
so that way you have a ample amount of paint on the end of the knife if you're
just starting out I recommend putting more paint than normal on there so that
way you can see how paint will actually peel off in
grab onto the canvas now when you approach the canvas I want to make sure
that the tip of the blade is at the tip of the mountain and as you align the
blade with the angle of the mountain I want you to come in at a 45 degree angle
and I want you to leave the blade here as you gingerly go down in a cross you
see the biggest mistakes most people have when using a palette knife is they
start to introduce a lot of variables rather than just coming down and across
and technically yeah it's very difficult as there are a lot of variables when you
come down and cross you have to open up the blade use your wrist chicken wing
your elbow out and gingerly move down there's a lot of motions happening in
this arm and what happens a lot is your hand will start to shake and that can be
really difficult at the beginning and if you can just leave it down to one easy
motion things will start to click a lot easier so what I recommend is when you
come in around that 45-degree angle just simply go down leave your wrist and
forearm locked and just kind of drop your elbow in the motion of the mountain
and you're gonna get more or less slices of paint that come off and this will
look like snow when you step away from your painting and look at it from a
distance now the more time you do a couple of slices the more snow it looks
like that's gonna be on the mountain and as you start to get the motion you can
turn your wrist a little bit more exposing the blade a little more in a
little more in a little more in a little more and what this does is this will
start to add into that natural paint break as you come across your mountain
and things will start to click and you will feel like you can start to do paint
breaks by putting your knife on there adjusting your wrist exposing the blade
chicken winging your elbow out and dropping down in one nice motion and
allowing that blade to gingerly go across and paint breaking you see this
slice technique is basically like baby steps to get you to paint breaking which
is why I recommend any new person starts here nobody's ever really taught this so
I'm glad I get to show you now if you're still struggling with using a palette
knife and getting paint to break or even slice off it's probably because of one
thing you might have a big boy or big girl
palette knife just like this and you know this palette knife is a lot like a
real knife it has a sharp blade here which means when you come down across
you are essentially cutting the paint off onto the canvas which can be very
very difficult if you're just starting out it was for me what I recommend is
get yourself like an artist loft palette knife this thing is extremely cheap I
think it's under like three bucks or five bucks it's smaller but the blade at
the end is much more rounded it's actually not that sharp and I noticed
from my experience that the paint kind of more or less just rolls off and it
gives you a lot more control as you come down and cross so you can start here and
then you can upgrade here it's okay you can treat this like your first test run
of a boyfriend or girlfriend and then upgrade to that supermodel the bob ross
palette knife trust me nothing wrong with having transitions
from one knife to the next Mountain snow palette knives they're all very
difficult which is why I plan on making a video on showing you actual secrets
and tips and tricks that'll make you know painting mountains and snow so much
more easy if you're interested in that video you know you can do a few things
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always here for you and I'm always gonna be here for you to make sure your
creative adventure goes off without a hitch
I always come in clutch which is why I'm gonna put a video over here on the side
that's gonna show you the proper way to hold a palette knife and it's really
gonna help improve your Mountain technique so I recommend checking that
video out right after this one and until next time all you beautiful and creative
people take care and of course peace