Hazy Landscape

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Advanced Walk through

Here is a walk through of how I made the hazy landscape painting shown below. I hope it proves to be helpful for someone! Click any of the thumbnail images for a larger view.


Firstly I splotched in areas of colour with a soft brush to determine placement:

Then I went in with a hard edged brush to add details. Basically I just swish-swish-swished a bunch of various green lines over each other.

Next I moved onto the middle ground area to add detail. Keeping the colours fairly flat and hazy.

The next step is to add smaller details and tweak reflections.

Working my way down the tree line. =)

This shot shows a little better how I cleaned up the shapes before adding in the highlights and shadows.

Almost there!

Paint in the tree. The leaves are basically a bunch of overlapping speckly brushes in various colours:

Finished - Thickened the haze, reduced the saturation a tad and tweaked the reflections some more.

And for fun here's the tweaked sepia style version I did.