If I was living in the USA I would try to follow the class to learn to paint this painting of Mickey Cline from Happy Little Paintings. Now I have tried it by myself and made my own color selection. On canvasboard 30 x 24 cm. Oh, I forgot the waterfall!
Thank you again Sandy!
I came here to comment on the sky and reflections and noticed someone beat me to it! They really are lovely.
Great painting. I really enjoy your work. The mountains always catch my eye.
I'm curious. You said in your bio that you don't own a 2-inch brush, hardly ever use the 1-inch brush, and paint mostly on small canvases. Question...what brushes do you use to achieve these great results?
Thank you Lilikins and Alex for your kind words, added a photo with the brushes I use the most at the moment, from left to right:
1 Bleiswijck for sky and water
2 and 3 Bleiswijck for clouds and bushes and distant hills
4 Bleiswijck for evergreens (still searching for a better one, fanbrush is too big)
5 Da Vinci linerbrush 1 for branches signature etc
6 Action make-up brush for blending like clouds
7 For reflections in the water
8 Lukas 12 for highlights in trees and bushes
9 Talens 8 for bushes background color
10 Peter van Ginkel 16 for trees background color
11 Paletknife for mountains basic and highlight
12 Paletknife Bob Ross for waterlines.
Wow. So, none of your brushes are very big then. And I'm surprised at the shape of the palette knife you use for mountains. You must load the narrow edge, I'm assuming.
One more question...I get the impression you don't use very much paint to do a painting. Is that true? It just looks like a thin layer over the whole canvas.
Thanks for sharing your tools of the trade. Good to know nice art can be done without the bigger brushes, and on smaller canvases.
Jos: I forgot to mention that I've had good success with a wider filbert brush at making evergreens. It doesn't hold much paint but has the shape of a fan brush for making the curved limbs. Just wanted to throw that out there, because you mentioned the fan brush was too big.
Alex: there is only one edge on that pallet knife (the end), don't use much paint indeed, this is a way to have a lot of fun in painting without spending a lot of money. Thanks for the filbertbrush tip. The fan brush uses a lot of paint when loaded full, as Bob recommends.
I really like the pink and the yellow reflected in the water. Great work!
Thank you Tawny!
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Really pretty! Love the colors in the sky and reflections!