Paint with Kevin Hill - Peaceful Mountain Lake
Hi, I'm Kevin Hill and today we're going to do another fun painting. So let's get started.
We'll start off today with the two inch brush and a little bit of blue and we'll come up here
to the corners and just paint in our little sky just like normal and then we'll let it get nice
and soft and light down toward the horizon. Let it get very light and then nice and dark in the
Now with a clean two inch brush we can very lightly blend out this whole sky.
I want to make it look very soft. Blend out anything that looks too hard.
Make it very smooth. With some white on the one inch brush we can add a few tiny tiny little
clouds up here. I don't want too much today just a little bit tiny little bit maybe just a couple
to float like that. Now with a clean two inch brush we can very lightly blend out the bottom
of the cloud just like that. When you're done blending out the bottom then we can lift it up
just lift it right up and blend across to make it look very soft. With some black and red on the knife
we can make a nice mountain up here just like this kind of using the point of the knife
just to draw in our basic little shape but this is very dark this is as dark as I can make it
and we'll come back and highlight later.
Now I'm going to take a two inch brush and very lightly pull this mountain out and
grabbing it at the top and pulling it down then letting it get very misty and soft at the bottom
just like that. With some gray on the knife we can add a tiny little bit of highlight
right up here to this mountain. I'm just taking the knife and letting it run right down very
very lightly. Now this isn't snow covered normally I like those snow covered mountains
but today I thought I thought I'd show you one that was kind of rocky maybe we'll have a little
bit of snow on it but mostly rocks. When you're done highlighting you can take just that that
basic mountain color the first color we used here and we're going to add some nice dark
shadow areas just like that this is extremely dark kind of let them work together like that
there we go maybe a little right there with some white on the knife we can lay in a little bit of
snow right up here not too much though don't want to go overboard just a little bit like there's a
little snow just kind of sitting up in there that hasn't quite melted off yet let it work down the
mountain maybe a tiny bit right in there just like that now we can go back to a clean brush
and just tap out the bottom of the mountain then lift up following the angle see that the angle
comes this way so I lift up like that over here and turn the brush and do the same thing
now before we go too far I want to add some water so we'll just take some blue and pull in from the
sides just like this now we can think about some distant trees back here so for that we'll just
take a one inch brush and some green and I'm just going to tap just like this I'm looking for a nice
dark edge right up there at the top and we'll take that and lift it up just like this
to create thousands of little treetops way in the distance
now we can paint some trees that are just a little bit closer
we'll just take the fan brush and tap kind of use the top corner of the brush
and you'll get trees that look like they have a little bit more detail to them
but don't cover up all your background trees leave a lot of them showing through
and you can even take the brush and just add a little detail to one like this
when you're done painting your background trees then we can take some nice dark green
and make some large ones just like this I gave myself a line and then I'm going to tap
and push up and work my way across just like that and we'll do quite a few of these maybe
we'll have a lot of pine trees in this painting so we'll just push them in like this make them
pretty dark though you want these pine trees to be nice and dark there we go and another one
right there now with a clean brush we can take some of this green and just lightly pull it
just to kind of blur it and make it look like a reflection and we'll go gently across very
very lightly though I don't want to destroy it all with the fan brush we can paint in a very
basic reflection of the mountain just like this with the knife and some brown
we can add a little bit of land right back here not too much just a little something back here
with some white on the knife we can add a small water line right back here just like this
now back to the fan brush and some green and blue and let's see let's make a big tree right
about there and I'll just take the corner of the brush and push up bend the brush
I want this tree very dark we'll come back and highlight later now with some blue and green
and white we can add a little bit of highlight to this tree up here
this is kind of a different color than I normally use it's got some blue and white
instead of yellow and green so it kind of makes it look more like a blue spruce tree
something a little different than we normally do now we'll go back to our normal green and yellow
and highlight the rest of these trees doing the same thing though pushing up with the fan brush
to add a little bit of highlight leave a lot of dark at the bottom there we go just like that
now we can take the one inch brush and go through some dark color
and I want to add a few tree limbs that stick right out into the painting like that
maybe the tree's over here somewhere we can't see it but we can see some of the
leaves that are hanging in here with some black and brown on the knife
we can add in a nice rock right here at the bottom just like that very dark I want this to be
nice and dark so it looks close because this is right here in the foreground
there we go just like that and well we have that going let's add a little rock right there
this one's not too big just sticking out of the water with a little bit of brown and white
we can highlight our rock not too much highlight though I want these to be pretty dark
just like that and then the tiniest little bit on this one here not much not much at all
with some dark paint on that one inch brush we can add a little bit of grass
right there now to turn this into grass we can take the script liner
and just pull up a lot of tiny little blades of grass just like that having that dark on there
really helps this would be much harder without the dark there all right well I think we're done
I had a lot of fun I hope you did too don't forget to check out my website and also my
new DVD for beginners I'll put those links below and thanks for watching