How to Paint a Rural Landscape – Tips For Mixing Grass Greens

How to Paint a Rural Landscape – Tips For Mixing Grass Greens

In this blog post I will show you how to paint this rural landscape that features some atmospheric spotlighting effects. This painting is inspired by the Northland region in northern New Zealand and it originally started as a plein air painting. I then took it back to the studio and added more details to it.

How to Paint Light in a Seascape

How to Paint Light in a Seascape

In this painting demonstration I will show you how you can create of light in a seascape painting. This painting is inspired by a place called Owhiro Bay on the coast of Wellington in New Zealand. The beach is south facing and as it is in the southern hemisphere the sun shines from the north and directly onto the breaking waves.

Breaking waves are easier to paint when they are backlit but they can still look great in paintings even when the sun is shining on them. In this painting I have used a spotlight effect to emphasise the breaking wave. The foreground is in a half shadow from a cloud. The cliffs in the mid ground are also light with part shade. This also adds interest to the painting.

How to Paint Trees and Fields – Tips For Mixing Greens

How to Paint Trees and Fields – Tips For Mixing Greens

In this blog post I will show you how to paint this beautiful countryside scene and I will give you some tips on mixing greens that you would typically find in the landscape.

This painting is inspired by the Northland Region of New Zealand.

This painting originally started as a plein air painting, then I added more detail to it in the studio.

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