This my 11th painting and My first totally original piece. I am a sucker for sunset-colored, transitioning skies. It wasn't even supposed to be a snow setting, but it just kind of happened that way. I didn't know what I wanted, I just used what I had learned from Bob Ross techniques and began adding stuff.
This was also my first work with Bob Ross brand brushes for the shrubs. I had been using Wooster Fong natural-hair commercial brushes. They are fine for skies, but terrible for foreground details and only create mud.
This was my second attempt at a branched tree with an actual good liner brush. It's a Grumbacher Goldenedge and it's brilliant. Far better than my previous Hobby Lobby Master Art brand. I also now have a Kevin Hill liner brush. In a way it's even better than the Grumbacher, but does not offer nearly as much control due to its length.
This painting gave me lots of confidence. It's not the most elaborate, but I think it's my best painting yet. It also only took about 1.5 hours versus my normal 3-4 hours following along with videos.
The white on the mountains is Master Touch Titanium white with bright red highlight. That brand white is extremely thick and great for mountains. It's also very economical.
Great painting! I'm glad you were able to experiment and try creating something from scratch. I remember how rewarding that feeling is. Definitely keep it up, you did a great job with this one!
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Your sky is very nice here, it works very well with the rest of the painting! I see you had different liner brush for the tree here.
One thing about liner brush since you asked - I hold brush approximately in the middle of its length when I need light touches to produce extremely thin lines. Paint is diluted with more linseed and less paint thinner to be more fluid as well. (however accidents do happen as it is less control over the brush compare when I hold near the ferrule).