so ready to start today we are getting
set up ready to start filming I actually
couldn't remember this morning when I
came in which picture I was working on
for the life of me I couldn't remember
and even when I came and sat down and
looked at it I thought I should I
remember doing that job but clearly I
have and it's one of you snuck in and
did it so let's get started okay so
we're just going to finish these trees
here today to get the sky done and we'll
work on the water and the reeds I might
get that done tonight let's go let's get
working
okay let's just get this sky done
I'm just looking to keep this as soft as
possible this guy I don't want too much
detailing it is just going to be a hint
of clouds really I'm not too worried
about busy skies quite busy landscapes
or what I tend to do if the landscape is
quite busy I keep the sky just a bit
more simple otherwise I find it tends to
just make you know make it look as if
there's too much going on in the picture
I think it's nice to have some smoother
areas you know that's just me that's
just what I like the hillside and the
photograph seems to be the quite purple
or warmee purpley brownie sort of color
I think I'm going to do them a little
bit more blue because I want them to
still be set back a little bit more give
you gives you that bit more depth so
you've got you've got foreground
you've got middle ground and you've got
background I think that worked quite
well is let's have a skin better go so
as you can see with this hillside at the
back I'm not really doing any I suppose
I'm putting detail on but I'm certainly
not copying the hillsides in the
photograph it's really just a such a
small part of the picture you know
that's just a little a compliment up
there it's not anything that's super
integral to the scene itself I don't
think I think it just gives you that it
gives you that depth and like the sky it
just needs to be soft
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so the trees here they're starting to
look like pine trees certainly these
ones at the bottom are but what I'll do
now is I'm going to put in some darker
shaded areas and that should finish it
off because it don't look quite quite
right so this might be a bit dark new
touch my house a bit more it mix it into
that green a little bit more so all I'm
going to do is just pick up on the tops
here and there just so that you can see
that you know that's what pine look
and really most of the time what you're
doing is you're just suggesting rather
than actually painting each individual
tree or copying the photograph precisely
so this is pretty much black I've mixed
it in with that green there so it's not
jet break I'm choosing a lot of thinner
so that it's got a nice sort of flow to
it and it's sitting on top of that wet
paint okay because it's so thin
as we move onto these trees at the lower
part of this area here notice that
notice that I'm varying the colors a bit
not a bit more not all the trees er you
know exactly the same color they saw
warmer greens and there's quite a few
Browns in there as well just so just
when you're doing it yourself just be
aware that not everything is the same
color and the more variation you can put
in the more realistic it's going to look
so I did have a question about how I
sharpen the brushes up or trim a used
brush sometimes to get it to sharpen up
a little bit let me gives me better
foliage detail so I've got this brush
here that I'm currently using and I have
sharpened it in the past and whether you
can see we've got more a straight edge
there the tip and it comes up to us or
like a v-shaped point here where that
sort getting a little bit less defined
now you've got these off with you can
see you've got these areas coming away
so what I'm going to do is I'll just cut
this bits off here that are a little bit
less defined to get a nice sharp corner
again I'm just going to cut into the
edge and take off the smaller bits there
we go that's giving me a little bit more
and I'll just thin it out a little bit
just to get away some of those scraggly
bits and then why might do its just
sharpen it again so now you see got a
nice sharp edge let's see how that works
out
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