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Learn to paint a landscape in ONE easy lesson!
"I dream a painting and then I paint my dream" — Vincent Van Gogh
Joan A Brown | Free step-by-step oil painting lesson - No.1
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Step 9: Finishing the Painting - A few water lines and other details
Using your palette knife, pull a small amount of soft white flat on the palette. Fig. 74. Load the long edge of the
knife and cut a few water lines in the water and at the banks of the evergreens and distant trees. Fig. 75, 76.
Saw the knife back and forth to thin out the lines of paint. The farther away the lines, the thinner they should
be. Don't place too many. . .less is more!
Don't expend any effort adding any details to the background of the painting. Objects that far back should be
only indicated.
Using your palette knife, pull a small amount of soft white flat on the palette. Fig. 74. Load the long edge of the
knife and cut a few water lines in the water and at the banks of the evergreens and distant trees. Fig. 75, 76.
Saw the knife back and forth to thin out the lines of paint. The farther away the lines, the thinner they should
be. Don't place too many. . .less is more!
Don't expend any effort adding any details to the background of the painting. Objects that far back should be
only indicated.
Finish the reflections by,
again, softly running the 1"
brush vertically and
horizontally across the
water. Fig. 71, 72
again, softly running the 1"
brush vertically and
horizontally across the
water. Fig. 71, 72
Fig. 72
Fig. 73
Your painting might look something like this as this point. . .
Almost finished!
Almost finished!
Fig. 71
Fig. 76
Fig. 75
Fig. 74
Fig. Use a little medium to make ink with any
color oil paint you like and. . .
Sign your masterpiece!
color oil paint you like and. . .
Sign your masterpiece!
Fig. 77
Fig. 78
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me know. Suggestions on how I might improve these lessons are welcomed.
Please use the feedback page for any comments or questions you may have. Thank you!
Feel free to download this lesson for your personal use "free_painting_lesson-no1.zip"
Dedicated to my late beloved son, Jabec Easton Bellehumeur.