How to Paint a Mountain Lake Sunset

How to Paint a Mountain Lake Sunset

In this painting tutorial I will show you how to paint a mountain lake sunset inspired by Lake Wanaka in New Zealand. This painting features autumn trees, mountains, a lake and the evening sunset as it peers through the clouds.

Throughout this painting tutorial I give you tips on painting autumn colours, sunsets and clouds as well as how to create colour harmony.

How to Paint a Mountain Landscape – Tips for Painting Water and Distant Mountains

How to Paint a Mountain Landscape – Tips for Painting Water and Distant Mountains

In this painting tutorial I’m going to show you how to paint a landscape with a sparkling mountain stream as depicted in the painting above. This painting was inspired by the rugged landscape in southern New Zealand.

I painted this art work in oils but you could also use acrylics instead.

How to Paint a Rural Landscape

How to Paint a Rural Landscape

In this painting tutorial I show you how to paint a landscape as featured in the image above. This painting is inspired by a rural area in southern New Zealand. This painting features a rural landscape at the end of summer where the fields and hills are dry, the grass is yellow and the trees are casting shadows in the soft evening light. All good ingredients for a landscape painting.

How to Create Atmospheric Perspective in a Landscape Painting

How to Create Atmospheric Perspective in a Landscape Painting

In this blog post I am going to show you how you can create atmospheric perspective in a landscape painting as I show you how to paint this mountain valley scene.

What is Atmospheric Perspective?

Simply put, using atmospheric perspective is a way of creating the illusion of distance and depth in a landscape painting, for example making distant hills and mountains look like they are far away.

How to Paint Autumn Colours – Tips For Painting Trees and Leaves

How to Paint Autumn Colours – Tips For Painting Trees and Leaves

In this blog post I will show you how to paint this autumn scene that features willow and poplars trees and I will explain how to mix those autumn / fall colours.

Autumn is a wonderful time of year especially if you are a landscape artist, but autumn colours can be a challenge to paint. I hope in this blog post I can give you some ‘go to’ colour combinations for mixing autumn colours so you can confidently paint trees and foliage.

How to Paint Autumn Trees

How to Paint Autumn Trees

In this blog post I will show you how to paint autumn trees in this painting inspired by a place called Arrowtown in southern New Zealand. This area was planted with European deciduous trees including willows, poplars and sycamores and every autumn their leaves display vibrant beautiful colours.

I will show you the step by step process of how I created this art work.

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