Red - if the water is running downhill from the mountain as it should be it looks like the water is splashing on the lower side of the first boulder and it should be splashing on the top side (closest to the mountain). I hate it when you ask us this, I always feel like such a nitpickie person, LOL...the picture is gorgeous as always!!!!
monster...you are absolutely right... you are so clever... always love I critic ... didn't really think about it when I did it...
Here is another one that is sometone similar...
[attachment=675] when ever we use a black gesso back ground to a picture we use as a medium magic clear versus magic white .. and unfortunately you will always get this glare like effect as you do in this one... I have yet to figure out how to take it out.. the picture is similar to the one that I did, butit has a glacier at bottom of the mountain and a water fall at the end of the river running from the river...love Red
I hate it when I'm right sometimes, LOL...I didin't even realize there was a page 2 when I posted...I just read page one, looked at the pic and went from there. We love your pics, quit asking us to find things wrong with them
I want to do the pic above instead of the other so you will have to E mail me directions OK Love ya..BA
Backache...I will have to write the direction for the one above...so give me a couple of days ok... I am doing my taxes today and tomorrow.... love Red
I already have the canvas painted with the black gesso so anytime you get done with those taxes will be fine. We always wait to the last second to do taxes since my hubby is self employed we always owe...........
8. Mix a small amount of paint that will be used for the shadowing that aligns against the white highlights. The mixture will have a ½ “ of the mountain mixture with an added ¼†white and ¼†black. Once this mixture is marbled using a knife, then with the large knife obtain a small roll at the end of the knife. With this roll of paint roll the paint onto the opposite side of where the white paint was laid however, moving in the opposite directly (moving to the left) lightly as if you were frosting a cake. You want it to break apart. Then using the white roll on a large knife, move the knife downward for each stroke started on the first or second peak. Then continue the path of white toward the left side of the mountain until you have broken up the mountain with an additional lower mountain.
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9. Using a 1†brush and the crutch stroke (tilt the brush upward so that the only part of the bristles that come in contact with the canvas is the top part of the brush bristles) starting at the lower base of the mountain on the right hand side and crutch the brush upward about 1â€Â-1 and 1/2†following the lay of the mountain. The mist that you are creating will provide a separator between the mountain and the next level of the painting.
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10. Using a large fan brush, crutch in the background trees. This is done by loading your brush with a ½ “ Sap Green and a ½†black mixture and then starting in the middle of the canvas moving outward making a solid vertical stroke and then moving right next to it as you move away from the center. Each stroke will represent a tree in the distance.
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I changed the color of the water to look like a PA stream.
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I am trying to work on the mountains in my pics......
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