You dont have to have a lot of money, fancy paint brushes, or high dollar acrylic paint to create a beautiful painting. The canvas you can either buy, or find at a garage sell. The brushes you can get at walmart in the craft section for about 10 bucks and the paint is actually acrylic craft paint which runs about 88c per tube. So you ready? Lets get this show started!
You will want to start with White, Phthalo Blue, and a touch of Cadmium Yellow. You can put it on a disposable plate. Paint the sky with white first with your largest brush. You will get more coverage this way. Be sure to have a glass of water sitting next to you with a few paper towels. Rinse your brush and take excess water off with a paper towel. Set aside. You will then use a medium sized brush to add the blue in a sideways stroke randomly. Add a very small amount of the yellow in the same way. With a large dry brush, run from left to right all the way across from one side to the other. The base white paint will start to mix with the blue and yellow and fade out the colors. You can add little more blue if you want.
Next, take your blue and mix it with Phthalo Green on your plate. With a small, square flat brush create your tree line. Its best to do it now because you will want it to fade into your sky somewhat. Since it is "far away" it wont be in focus very much.
Next, you will want to get a background color. I like to use Black and Burnt Umber. I left the water and the bridge white. I wanted to keep some outline shapes so that I knew where to fill in and where not to fill in later. In this way, I can still keep the basic image before me.
Next, I started to fill in the rock shapes with the Burnt Umber mixed with White. I created different shades of brown like this. I then added white to the tops in different areas where I felt the light would come from. When you pick a direction for the sunshine to come from...be sure that you keep your light on that same side of everything and the shadows or dark spots on the opposite sides.
For the Water, I took Phthalo Blue and fan brush. I started with small fluent downward strokes starting at the top and working down. You dont want to over work this. Let this dry.
When you go back, use pure white. In the same manner, start at the top and work your way down. You also do not want to over work this either. When you get to certain areas where the water is near the rocks you will want to do short upward strokes. When water hits rocks, it makes an upward splashing motion. I think if I were you, it would be best to look at a few pictures of water falls and go from there.
Next, I did the bridge. Again, I painted it black underneath, then I added Burnt Umber mixed with Black on top. From there, I mixed Burnt Umber and White to create a lighter shade to work with for the majority of the Bridge. I made sure to leave the darker parts on the one side to indicate shade. The final thing I did was mix White with a very little bit of black. This created a whitish grey color. I used this for the highlights where the sun would hit it.
For the reflections in the water.....You will want to paint the water blue with some black mixed in near the shore. Then paint the rocks above the water and paint the reflection of the rocks and grass in the water just below. The rocks and grass that are in the water portion...you will want to take your fan brush and go lightly from the left side of the canvas across to the right in one even stroke. Do this until you have diagonal lines running across the images you painted in the water area. Next, take one of your small pointy brushes and add white along the shoreline and then small random lines in the water.
This is my finished painting. I hope this helps. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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