How to Paint a Hillside into a Landscape Painting

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Mat Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to do a landscape painting. Okay, so let's get our near hillside more drawn in. Now this is going to be really close to us, so we have less atmosphere in the way of our view which means bolder, stronger colors, even in the under painting I'm doing right here. Bolder, stronger colors. Get a big brush and start slopping it on? Again, we're going to use a lot of media for the under painting here... this first thing here where we're building things up. Because we want to make sure to keep things still thinner underneath. But, we can definitely mix in more vibrant colors now. If you've been feeling like you've been held back, like "dang it, where are the deeper greens and blues" now's the time to bring them out. Another color that I'm going to put in the near stuff is some more of the venetian red. It's a really, really rich earth tone. Again, you want to make sure you don't overdo it, but this can really bring out a lot more vibrancy into you're burnt umber than would otherwise be the case. Just make sure and keep mixing these guys across the foreground here. This is like.... if this is a painting you're looking at and you the viewer are right here, you could almost put your foot forward and there you go.... there's your footprint. This is the closest stuff to you, so the first step is going to be getting all these vibrant reds and browns and also don't forget the greens.... in here and just get the dark all the dark all the way down to the riverbank. And then we'll be ready to start adding in more of the details near and dear."