In today’s video, watercolor painter Dale Laitinen demonstrates a fairly easy method for covering distant hills in realistic looking trees.
After mixing together a blue-green color (to simulate atmospheric distance and shadow) Dale follows the line of the hill downward, making short, vertical brushstrokes for far-off trees. By massing some of the strokes closer together, and some farther apart, Dale creates the idea of a distant forest in just minutes. Take a look:
For Dale’s full landscape painting tutorial, please visit Creative Catalyst.
Finally, my "big project" is finished! It’s been a crazy day with a lot going on, but foliotwist.com is finally live and online! Since I’ve kept it a complete secret up until launch, here’s a quick (mostly visual) overview of what it does. . .read more
In today's video, Dale Laitinen demonstrates how he mixes natural-looking greens, grays, and violet for use in his amazing watercolor landscape paintings. Take a look: NOTE: You can get Dale's full-length watercolor DVD tutorial at Creative Catalyst.. . . read more
Today, watercolor painter Dale Laitinen shows some of the mark-making versatility you can achieve with just a few different paintbrush sizes at hand. In the clip below he uses at least three different sizes of brushes, as well as a variety of warm and cool color combinations to create visual d. . . read more
In this week's video tutorial, Dale Laitinen demonstrates how you can use the natural characteristics of watercolors to create perfect, soft transitions between different elements in your painting. Dale calls these transitions "links" because they unify, or link, different parts of the paintin. . . read more
Painting a distant figure inside of a landscape (or any scene) is an entirely different task than painting a portrait. Not only is the person much smaller, making it harder to add details, but the focus of the painting may not even be on them. Today's video shows the process behind painting a . . . read more
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