How to Paint a Distant Hillside into a Landscape Painting

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of expertvillage, I'm going to show you today how to do a landscape painting. We're going to be putting our attention now kind of like some of these more distant nearby hillsides and to kind of get things rolling I'm going to do a subtly different thing. I'm going to take my palet knife and smear some green across here. I'm just going to smear some white across here, I want to give people a little bit more of a kind of an insight, since you can't always see down on my palet what I'm doing at home blending things. I'm also going to put some burnt umber up in here, I'm also going to put like a little extra more white in the distance here to get the mist. So with these colors in place, I'm going to take a round brush. A good round brush and we're going to use this round brush to mix things up a bit. I'm also still going to have some meetia on here to help the paint flow. Start taking this. Let's explode outwards with it. I'm not doing any clean sweeping I'm actually scrubbing, I'm prickling and I'm scrubbing. It's like the canvas is dirty. Just keep scrubbing going back and forth here don't even stop to worry about what anything looks like just yet. Let's keep scrubbing. Scrub that white together, scrub the burksee together if things start to get dry, you start noting some speckling with the canvas, get some more meetia, that's all you need there, to get it going again. Keep scrubbing all the way here we're building up this bank and then hey, hop across here. Welcome to the other side. What we're going to do is we're going to basically build up the land like we're building it from nothing. We're not going to deal with details just yet before we get our river in here. But just to get an idea of what kind of what things are looking like, color shades, you're going to end up with some really neat like vibrant colors here, it's ok, let that be, everything does not have to blend together. You can have different strokes coming through on a landscape. Just like whenever you have like a bark right up next to a green leaf. Basically what we're going to do is we're going to keep building up this hillside. Then we go back to our big brush with the mist. Now we're going to do some serious blending. Because the mist is going to come out right near the bank. Build back upwards with the green because there's more hillside here that the mist is covering up. There you go! Just like that, back and forth. Big swaps with our big flat. This is going to be the first step in getting our hillside in order. Now, it might be that actually you blended too much. Now this is just a little lip of land, maybe that's what you're going for but personally I want to show a little more grass, so again, I'll go back to scrubbing a little bit to show a little more of the demarcations here. And eventually you'll find a good balance between exposed hillside and blending back in to the mist. "