Adding Mountains for Oil Painting Sunrise

Video Transcript

"Ok, now we're actually going to color in our final part of the painting which is the mountains in the foreground down below. Taking some white here and adding in some black and we're going to color mix this puppy into a deeper somber gray. But I'm not going to stop here. If I were to stop here it would look a little funny like painting gray mountains in the foreground of something doesn't really belong. You need to have a little bit more of some of these warmer pigments. So this left over permanent rose is going to help us out. But gray has an amazing ability to very quickly swallow colors as you are undoubtedly seeing right here. It's not a whole lot different then what it was. We're actually going to go back here and grab some permanent rose. Talk about the power of permanent rose; now let’s put it to the test. Uh-oh, looks like the gray is losing out. We now have a nice, deeper, grayish, but definitely a still purple color and we're going to use this as the base color for our mountains. OK, so let’s start applying this. You still apply it in largely horizontal strokes here at the bottom. If the paints to thick, just put a little bit of media on there and it will thin it right up. All the way up near here, we are only going to have a thin strip of blue. I'm using a flat brush to apply a lot of this so I can get wide quick coverage. Don't have to worry about a lot of details just yet. Now when you get to that point, lets convert over to our round brush and you’re going to say, "Hey Matt, you still have some paint on that brush", and I'm going to say, "Yes I do and that's a very good thing because that's pigment I now want to add on to the top of our mountains". A little bit of lighter, brighter areas here. I don't want to have everything just be a dark purple. I want there to be some white up here. I want there to be some pink and I also want there to be some yellow color at the very, very top of these mountains. You have to be careful to make sure that it doesn't blend in too much. But in general if you can bring in enough pigments in here you can make things unique enough. The smaller the brush the more detailed these mountains will be if this isn't detailed enough for you, no problem. Switch from your round brush; bring out your small brush in here to do much more fine articulations in color blending on your mountain foreground. One rule of thumb, the lower you get on the mountains down here, the darker your colors should be."