Oil painting demonstration

In this oil painting demonstration I painted in the greens and it is important to observe the variety of greens that you see in a composition, you don't

want too many different greens otherwise they wont harmonise. Try and concentrate on one or two greens and alter these with other colours but still retain part of the original greens. The sheds and cottage have been roughly painted in with just a mixture of all the previous colours on my palette.

All the tree foliage has been painted in here and notice that the trees go taller nearest us and smaller as they get further away this is good perspective.

The clouds were roughly painted in with the same colours burnt umber, ultramarine blue, flake white and touch of alizarin crimson. See the contrast in angles of the clouds to the hillside.

Developing areas now like painting in middle and light tones into the fields and I lightened the sheds in the distance and the cottage on the right. It doesn't really matter what colours you use in a painting as long as they are something like what you are painting.

See how some of the burnt umber colour has come through on the hillside here which is good because it gives contrast in colour and it looks fine anyway. Fence posts have been laid in smaller in the distance and a little taller as we come to the foreground to give perspective.

Highlights are added to the tree trunks using a lighter green made up of yellow ochre ultramarine blue and a touch of burnt umber and white.

The finished painting and details have been added to the cottage and sheds in the background and the tree has been added to the right of the cottage so our eye doesn't go wandering out of the composition....I hope you have enjoyed this short demonstration. Buy the Landscape painting DVD here >>

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