How to Paint a Mountain with Snow in Landscape Painting

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"Hello, my name is Matt Cail, and on behalf of expert village, I'm going to show you today how to do a landscape painting. Alright, let's go into our mountain and do something kind of similar to the sky. Kind of starting off with this underpainting.... and we'll be extending out there. Actually, you know, for a mountain, I like to use a smaller flat and often times the colors I'll be using are going to be our mars black, blended in with titanium white, which gives us this gray color. I'm also going to be using a bit of burnt umber, some of the raw sienna as well kind of to add in. What I want to do, is kind of think almost as if someone is pouring a pitcher of water and a sundae down on top of here. I mean it's dripping from top to bottom; different colors we're putting in here. You can see right now it looks like a nice caramel sundae. That sounds good. And then basically, I'm going to add in a bunch of different tones coming down that way. Just kind of dragging and dropping. These are incredibly steep slopes. Do not forget to add in generous doses of blue, especially lighter blue, because we are going to have a lot of snow up here. Oh my goodness, ski lifts are open. People are all up here, them and little animals, skiing. They're having a great time in their cabins. We want to make sure to draw in lots of nice ski runs for them. And with a mountain, you can just do so much. You can make any slope you want. I mean, what if you think, "here, that's looking a little bit dull," we're at the outlining phase, we have time. Look, there's a new slope now. A little mini guard peak out here. So really, think of whatever you want to do. As you get lower, we'll start starting to add some hints of green. But make sure to finish in the top, especially, with some cerulean blue heavily mixed with white and maybe a dab of mars black. Because there are glaciers. This is a tall mountain. It is a big, big mountain volcano who knows what horror. Fourteen thousand feet, that's how tall this mountain is. And we want to make sure that we have a lot of ice and white reflected on the slopes. "