Hello, I'm Stevie Moore. Welcome to my studio here at the Art Estatic in Lexington, Kentucky.
Alright, now we're going to fill in some details in the sky, the mountains, and the background
trees. I'm going to move into a smaller brush. I'm going to use this soft bristled round
brush. It's of a medium grade detailing. I'm going to use this stiff round bristle brush.
For the first time, you're going to see some techniques that I'm going to use for clouds
and texture using that brush. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to mix my paint here.
I'm just going to start with some white, and I'm not adding any liquid in here, I'm just
applying white directly from the palette to the canvas. These are going to be, what will
be my clouds shortly. Not a whole lot of cloud work; this isn't the type of painting that's
going to be a painting for a lot of cloud technique, but I'm just going to give you
a little sample of some cloud work. And I can just take some of the white; it's a nice
neutral color, never hurts to have it on your brush, usually. I'll just go ahead and just
dab in some solid white here with this bristle round brush, here. Alright, just want to dab
it in there. And I'm also going to keep this white on here, and there's a little bit of
white on those mountains; so, I'm just going to maintain white on this bristle brush and
it gives you kind of an erratic and uneven, random pattern. I'm going to go back and get
a little bit more of my creamy colors. There's some patches on this little mountain that
don't have a lot of trees, this is high up in the Rockies remember, so we're getting
their tree line. There's some areas with nothing in it. With a little bit of that left over
creamy color that we had from before, I'm just going to add some interest into the painting.
I'm going to wash off my brushes, here; get a little bit of this paint off of them. Now,
I'm going to continue with my round bristle brush, that's where I've got some of the white;
and I'm going to get some of this lighter green that we had made from earlier. We're
going to go up here and we're going to add in some details here in our trees up top.
Just with dabbing, it's giving it some tree-like forms; just pressing that into the canvas.
You go at different angles for trees. We've got some light trees and we've got some dark
trees. So, I'm just going to push that up over the mountain a little bit with that white.
I'm just adding some repetitive vertical shapes. Now, I'm going to move in with my darker green,
load up that bristle brush with the darker green, and I'm going to get some dark blue
in there. Now this is going to be the darkest green that I've got yet. We're not going to
make this super dark because this is far back; but we do want a little bit of contrast. We'll
add some blacks in here. Our light source is coming from the left, so we're going to
want to darken up the right side of all our objects. So that big tree right there, we're
just kind of darkening them up there. I'm going to get some blue, and when you just
mix a little dark in some areas that are already kind of light, you get a nice little shadow
effect. I just need to add a little bit of that in there. Alright, now we've detailed
in our background.