I painted a forest landscape | Oil Painting Time Lapse

Thank you so much for joining me for this oil painting time lapse. This is the largest size landscape I've attempted so far and I hope you enjoy seeing the process. The time lapse is actually very deceiving because it makes it seem like it's a really easy, fast process, all in one go, when in reality oil paintings take me a very long time to finish. Especially ones that are this size. I'm already a couple weeks into the process here. And this one measures 40 by 30 inches. I usually wait for layers and sections of a painting to dry before continuing on. This painting took a few months where I took breaks in between sittings, sometimes it was a couple days, sometimes it was many weeks, where I worked on other paintings and projects with more urgent deadlines. Ever since moving to the Pacific Northwest, I've been loving going hiking in the mountains. I feel like this region has endless source material to draw inspiration from and I always come home recharged and full of painting ideas. This painting was inspired by a hiking trip where a very thick fog settled into the mountain and it created this dreamy atmosphere. I just knew I had to paint it. I was also trying to channel some inspiration from one of my favorite painters, Ivan Shishkin, who painted Russian forests and nature. I grew up seeing his work and always wanted to paint forests of my own. I wanted to challenge myself to not over-render this painting to a photographic point. I still want it to look like a painting and leave in expressive brush marks, rather than smoothing everything out completely and trying to replicate my reference to the last pixel. I wanted some room to improvise and add my own personal touches. I also created two much smaller forest studies from the same day, the same hike. I just captured so many references that day and I'll probably paint even more of them, honestly. Thank you so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed. I just moved into a new studio again and for the first time ever, I have such a beautiful mountain view out my window. It inspires me every day, so I hope you'll stick around for more painting videos and there's also a 20% off prints holiday sale in my art store right now. So thank you so much for your orders, I'm wishing you a beautiful day and I hope to see you in my next video. Bye everyone!