How to Paint Mist into a Landscape Painting

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Mat Cail, and on behalf of expert village, I'm going to show you today how to do a landscape painting. In addition to working in oil painting in layers, a landscape painting in this case, starting with sky, and then the mountains, we are increasingly coming closer to the viewer. And now we're going to fill in kind of this nether region right here. And we're going to have some really nice mountain mists kind of down here. This is actually a bit of a valley down here. It's actually a pretty accurate meteorlogical phenomenon. And how we're going to accomplish this is pretty much, again, like an underpainting. Underpainting with white, light gray. So it's mostly titanium white, but also a little bit of that martian black. And we're going to bring this right up to the bottom of the mountain. Right up there. It's not going to be a solid line again. That's one of the big mistakes people make. NO no no no. This isn't a solid line, this is a mist. And mist doesn't have a solid line, it kind of tapers up and then vanishes. You see some shadows even in it, of the mountain, as the mist comes up and swallows up the bottom of the mountain. And also, the mountain's kind of spilling downward while the mist is going to have sort of a horizontal sweep similar to the sky. Now you can throw a couple of hints of color in here. I do not recommend much. Like you can put a little bit of burnt sienna in there. And what we're going to do is extend this all the way across. Another thing I like about oil is that you can kind of do it in the way where things are largely blended away, but you can kind of see where they go down, because this is still wet... you can still kind of blend with it. You can do this with acrylic paints, but you have to act fast. Otherwise, the acrylic will dry and then you can forget about it. So in this case, Oil's stubborn nature and wanting to stay wet and pliable longer really helps us. And as we get to the edges, you're going to stop doing these really broad brush strokes and you're going to switch more to the side. And taking some paint, you're just going to draw some tendrils. Where the mist border is kind of coming up over this ridge and kind of damming up against here because it doesn't have anywhere else to go. So we're going to continue this effect down right about...cutting kind of close to what's going to be our riverbank down here. We're actually going to be able to start seeing some hillsides coming out of the mist and away from our mountain. "