How To Paint 3D Mountain Landscapes with Acrylics

1. Welcome!: I have painted a lot of mountains in acrylics and also taught to thousands of my students. From my experience of teaching mountain landscapes, in my teaching career of eight years, I realized that most of my students struggled to paint mountains, and yet painting mountains is so easy once you understand the basic structure of mountains, my inspiration of painting mountains came from my hiking trips in the Himalayas. I have been to the Himalayas multiple times from various parts of northern India. And every time I just felt magical being there, after returning back from one of my trips, I painted mountains are two big canvases of five feet long because I was fascinated just looking at them. So before teaching you how to paint mountains, I want you to get a good grasp on mountains. So that anytime you look at a mountain landscape or you are traveling to the mountains, you should be immediately be able to say, I can paint that. In this class, you will learn how to look at a mountain photograph and how to visualize a complicated looking mountain in easy ways in your mind. Before you attempt to paint it. Then you will learn to decode the different types of mid lines of every mountain. And once you understand this, it will help you paint 3D mountains very easily and make it look like it's popping out from the Canvas. Then you will learn some of the important knife techniques to paint mountains. And I'll demonstrate the technique by painting two different types of mountains. And finally, you will learn to paint a very complicated looking mountain range, gathering all your knowledge from the previous lessons. So are you excited to dive right in I short ab. So let's go paint some mountains. 2. A Mountain in 6 easy steps: Before learning to paint mountains, let us understand what are the basic shapes of each mountain so that when you look at a photograph of our mountain, single mountain or a mountain range or whatever photographs you have, you understand how to decode that photograph into painting. So the first step I'm going to teach you is how to look at a mountain and understand how to divide it into small bits so that you can start painting. The very first thing that you already know, the basic shape of the mountain is like an upside v, right? So this is the first very basic shape of a mountain. This is how we painted mountains as kids. Right now. We are becoming a little bit more mature. So we are going to be in data or rather sketch it in a little bit more mature weights. So the first basic thing about the outline, if you look at a mountain, is that the line is never straight. It is always little undulating. It's a little uneven, right? So that is exactly what we are going to do now. Okay? Also, rather than creating it simple v, I'm going to change the angle of the top weight of the mountain as well. So I'm going to just vibrate my hand little bit and create the outline of the mountain. So this is how we faint mountain now, right? Second thing. What if you look at any of the photographs of a mountain, you would see that every mountain has a dividing line in-between. All the mountain peaks have a dividing line. You notice that There's a dividing line in the front, right. So that is what I'm going to do now. In the similar way. Good. Now, the next thing is if you look at this lines, they are never a straight line of course, and they are going in various directions. So say e.g. the center line of this mountain, it's going almost towards the right. This is coming straight like the one that I have done here. If you look at this one, this is going to the left, so they go in various directions. So your next day of painting any mountain would be to sketch it out, of course, first thing. So if this is the shape of the mountain, the midline goes almost like something like this. Let me just do it a little bit more nicely. I'm just, you know, modulating my hand little bit, kind of making it shiver. And in the process I'm creating this uneven lines rather than creating a straight line like this. This is very much straight line I've seen in my classes. Students also creating absolutely straight line mountains like this. And they look, to be honest, a little bit garish. But if you just undulate the sides like this little bit, it just starts looking very realistic, very gorgeous. And if the one photograph that you're looking at, if it has a central line, then by all means do a center line. But for most of the mountains, you will see that the lines are going little bit crazy like this, just left or to right or, you know, in all different directions. So this is our state three. State four. Now, you'd never really, if you look at a mountain, he would never really find one mountain peak. They're always in ranges. So which means there are multiple ranges next to it, right? So it's like up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down and so many mountain peaks. So that is our next step. So to be able to create a mountain painting, you need to understand that how mountains go. Okay? So I'm trying to create, so at the moment what I'm doing is creating the outer line of older mountain peaks. Ok, so this is my outer lines. So if I look at this one, it's almost like the outer line that you see. That inside that outer line there are few lines which are coming in front also. So that is what I'm going to do here. I'm not exactly following this photograph. I've just using it as a reference to make you understand what I mean. So what I'm doing is I am taking couple of lines in the front like this. Maybe this one like this. Maybe I will create one in the front like this. Okay, that's not all. Now we create all the things your lines also. So let's say this goes like this. This goes like this, maybe all sorts of like even in the one in the center. So in the fourth state, what you're alone to do is basically creating a mountain range rather than just a single mountain and then create the division. Alright? So you understand how we are gradually progressing towards dividing a mountain by dividing into simple stages. Now, I don't have much space over here, so I'm going to create one big one here. And what I want to show you is that in the next step is that should until the fourth step here. Let me just mark it out. 123. Okay? So at the moment we have just created the center line, right? So divided the mountain into two halves. But if you look at the pictures just between the two halves also, there are so many lines that are going in all directions. So we have to, the reason we need to understand this is because you are going to learn to create all those between lines also in your painting. So it's never just one. So if this is my division line, you're not just going to fill this up with one straight color. Even inside this, you're going to create so many pictures. So all these textures, this is the division line. Between this division line and the sideline. There are so many small textures as well. So if you're itself, you can see 123. So that is what is the next thing that you are going to do in the sketching? Oh, okay. I kind of made them a very straight line niche. So I'm making it a little undulating. Okay? Now let me create the central lines. So all these center lines are created now in-between the center line and this other the boundary line. I'm going to create multiple lines, more. I'm just making a few lines like this to show the ruggedness. And whenever you want, you can refer back to this picture to understand how you are going to create a mountain, right? Okay. So you understand all the textures that are coming in between the center line and the outside line. Now, the very last step, this is step five. Now for the very last step, I'm going to create, again. This time I'm kind of making it undulating, which I forgot to do in the first one. Again, I'm just creating I'm not referring to any photograph are doing this. Doing it. However, I feel like doing reading the center line. I feel creating the center line, which is basically step three, is one of the very important step of painting amount. And if you can create the centerline nicely, your margins are going to turn up amazing. And I'm gonna teach you a very easy way of creating the center line also with paint directly. Until here, you have already learned in state five. So I'm just repeating the state five because after this I'm going to add something brilliant. So now let's look at the photograph. You see for every center line, I haven't in this one, I haven't yet added the ragged lines in-between. And I'll tell you in a minute why. If you look at the two sides of this middle line, one side is dark once I disliked based on where the light is falling from. So if this is the sun direction, this is the side which should be light and the other side is going to be dark. Same thing over here also. One side light once I've done that is how all mountain ridges are. And if you can just do this simple trick of making a highlight on one side and dark on one side, your mountains are going to look realistic. Coming out of your canvas like this in a 3D direction. So that is exactly how you achieve that by adding light on one side and dark on one side. And that is exactly what I'm going to do. Let's say this is the sun direction. This side is going to be a highlight and this side is going to be dark. So to show the darkness, I am creating some pencil sketch right now. In this time, in this space where I'm making the marks right now, you are going to add the picture as well as the dark color. This is my dark side, which is the shadow side of the mountain. I'm going in every direction. And during painting also, this is pretty much what I do. Kind of go in all direction, which I'm going to teach you in a bit. Okay, So this is the dark side. Light side, on the other side. On the light side also, I'm going to add a few more marks to show that there are extras as well. There you go. This is number six. I hope you understand how to look at a mountain and divide the shapes so that you can paint it very easily. Now what I'm going to do is, like I said, number three is the most important step. So I'm going to teach you how to look at a mountain and how to create the center line easily so that it helps while you create your painting. So you can do this exercise yourself, ones, to get a good understanding of what you do is for teaching you, I just showed like created some mountain from without looking at anything. But what you can do is say e.g. you're painting this this photograph and a sketch it out on our Sketchpad and see what all lines are there. So create the outline first, then create this mountain in the front. Then create the division line and practice it on your own couple of times by looking at multiple pictures to understand how things are. To demonstrate a point number three, I'm going to create a few more mountain shapes with different types of middle lines so that you can understand how you can do it, okay. 3. Different mid lines of a mountain: I am looking at this one and let's do this center one first. Okay? And the center line goes something like that. Okay, then I let's say I'm doing this one. No. This one and the one in front. Let me try and do that exactly. However, I'm seeing this. I'm seeing that this is connected to another mountain. Okay? And I'm going to do the shadow side and the highlight side for better understanding. For this one, this is inside. There is a shadow. Okay. So you understand two different types of beaks. Let me look at a couple of more pictures. And so I'm looking at this one now. And I am trying to create this line, okay? So this peak, which is pretty much towards the left, and the system shadows, so I'm creating the shadow on the side. There is one mountain peak in the frontier that, that is in the middle line is here. And then this is the shadow side for it. And then pretty much some lines like this where I see some shadows on the side because this is the light source on the right. This is the one I'm looking at and doing. Okay. I just keep it here so that you can understand, see, and understand. So this is a topic that you are looking at, that is the one I'm doing. And there are few ragged lines. This is continuing like this. I'm not going to continue more. I'm going to end here. You see, just by doing in this tree mountains that have created, you see there are three different center lines. So it's very important to be able to create the center line for the mountains, to be able to paint them really well. Okay. Let me do one more. Right? So similarly, I'm going to do a few more, are looking at multiple pictures to make you understand how many that can be so many, okay. If you look at, if you take any mountain range photographs, just google and see if there can be so many different types of central lines for mountains. I mean, this is such an interesting thing, thing too. Absorbed because we don't really observe well while we are looking at, like if you visited mountains, I mean, I'm being too hemolyzed so many times, but I don't think I ever actually looked tried looking at how many different types of center lines at the hair in the mountains when I was there. I am only I only learned it just because of painting. Okay. That's ridiculous. I know. That's how it is. We don't really observe things unless we are painting it. Because I have noticed that while painting, I actually get to look at an object much more carefully and understand them even better. So that is why I feel this exercise is so good to do. Because you learn how to observe also. Doing crazy shaped mountains, because I was searching for mountains. This is a very common kind of mountain peak that I saw, kind of like little tarnish. This shadow color. It was the center is quite dark to create the contrast between the highlight and shadow. Alright, so that's all, I'm going to leave it here. But I hope by watching this video, you understood how to look at a mountain and how to decode them. Practice these basic shapes, download some pictures, and try creating this, because this will give you a very good idea so that whenever you look at a mountain, you can readily look at the central line, the fixtures that are happening and all the middle, in between the middle and under silent, all the textures that are happening like this. And you will be able to paint a mountain very easily. So it's really important that you try this out and understand how exactly a mountain is. Unless, because, unless we actually decode a mountain like this, we don't really know what a mountain is. I mean, just by looking at these sketches, you can understand how much 3D and realistic the mountains are looking. Okay, so once you have done this, we are ready to deep dive into painting the mountains. 4. Knife Techniques: Okay, before moving on to learning how to paint mountains, I want to teach you a few simple techniques that is going to help you in painting much beautiful mountains. So I'm going to teach you the basic the technique of creating the mountain fixtures. So for that, I'm using this paper pad palette that I have. And other colors that I will use are just for fishing the technique, any color is fine. So let me take out any color. I have this one right now with me. I mean, does it the color really doesn't matter. Pick up with whatever pick body acrylic paint you have. The focus is on learning the technique. And I have this knife with me, okay, so whatever knife you have, whatever color you have, just take it out. And we're going to learn this very simple technique. So watch it first. Okay? All I'm doing is touching my night very gently. And you see the amount of paint that I have picked up. This is not the amount that I'm going to use, so I'm just kind of getting rid of maximum of the paint and this is remaining amount. And now you come on Canvas or wherever you are doing. And very gently you touch on top of it. So you see you get these broken lines. Okay. Let me take a little bit more. This is the direction that we're going to take when painting the mountain ones towards the right ones, Let's select the texture that you want to create. The technique that I want you to practice is having such broken lines. Okay, so I'll show you the problem that happens. What most people do when they're doing it first time, they pick up a little bit extra paint. And if you press too hard, this is what you get, okay? But this is not what you want if you don't press too hard and if you hold it gently and drag it down like this, so you get these broken lines, right? It's not really lying there like blue broken dots. So if I, if I do it again, this is the kind of extras that you get, right? So this is what you want, because when you do this on the mountain, this gives like amazing snow. Look on the mountain. So let me do it a couple of more times. Gently. See, look at this. And if I want to do it in the direction of the shape of a mountain, this is okay. So just once you can't really do this twice. So cheers to one's. Gently. I'm going to teach you one more technique of doing the mountains, which is probably fairly easy, which is just in case you're having. So if you're doing this for the first time, I want you to practice this a few times and see how you get it. But I know normally people find it very difficult to, I'm giving you a very easy one, which is touch and pick it up. See, there was too much of pain, so that's where it became like a blob. But if you don't have too much of pain, so why should a little bit on the patch and pick it up? This is the kind of texture you get, which is also a very beautiful snowflake. So again, I picked up quite a bit. So all I'm doing is basically touching and picking it up. Okay? Now I'll teach you one more technique in this aspect of what I'm going to do is fill this up a little bit. So say e.g. you wanted whilst trying to create a snow, you added too much of the color on top of it, right? So then what you do is with the other color that you have, just for the sake of understanding, I'm picking up I have taken out a different color to show you. What you do is pick the other color. You can go on top of it. And this time, this is cheap way of getting the texture. So now you see the green is actually broken, that is short-term. And since these two colors are very similar, It's kind of difficult to understand. But when you do it on the on the mountain, you will understand what I mean. So I feel this is a very easy way of getting the textures right. Doing a few more, let me try with blue as well. Okay, so just practice this for some time on our rough sketch book or journal or whatever you have. And you will get a very good understanding of how to hold your knife and how to get this texture. 5. Basic Mountain Painting Demo - Part 1: Now, before moving on to creating the actual mountain technique that I want to teach you, let me teach you the same thing, what we just learned in the technique in the previous video, in a very basic mountain. Alright, so let's do a basic one just to understand how this mountain thing works. Okay? So all I'm doing is picking out some white create a little sky background. Otherwise it's not going to be visible. So that's why I've taken my flat brush and creating the sky. Okay, I'm gonna do one more of the same thing and show you with, uh, with both the techniques. I showed you two techniques in the previous one, right? So I'm going to use both the techniques and show you how you can do it in a very basic way. Then you can pick and choose whichever you find comfortable or whichever you like. I mean, I obviously like the technique, one technique to is just another easy way of doing the same thing. Okay? So this is just a simple sky background that I did. Now I'm going to paint the mountain, but this, since this space is really small, I don't want to do it with a, with a flat brush. Instead, I'm gonna do it with a round brush. And for that, I am taking out some black. Alright. I'm just creating a very basic mountain shape. So that's it. And now I am using black and blue to take it all the way down. Same thing I wanna do here. And this one, let me do the shape like this. Alright, so now I'm just going to let it dry for a couple of minutes. And then I'm going to do the texture on the top one. I'll do the texture one that I showed in this one. This texture which I did on the top. And then this bottom picture that I showed, the easier one that is what I'm going to be SU here. Alright, so doing it the first takeaway with the first technique. First thing I'm gonna do is, so right now I am using fluid acrylics, but I'm mixing it with. Turquoise blue. I am going and doing the highlight on the right. See very gentle. And I'm getting those broken textures that I just showed you. On the left side of my turnout, right? Gently, you adjust dragging. So some of the background is showing the black, some of the black background is showing, alright. And what you can do is you can first do the highlights of Buddhist mountains or do the highlight shadow and the highlight shadow. You can go whichever way you want. I really like going highlight, shadow, highlight, shadow way. But let me show this one in this way first we want the highlights to get very gently dragging them. And so as I was telling you in this one, that if you feel you have added too much, which I had just did over here, I added too much and the black is not visible. And then you can come with a different color on top of it and once again on doubled way to make it visible. So that is exactly what I wanna do here. I did not do it on purpose, but it just happened. So it's a good thing that I really, to show you. All I'm doing is adding some mode of white. Okay? And that's done. Now. I'm going to do the shadow section on the left side. And for that, I'm going to mix black and blue. And check this out. I'm going on that. Joining this two in the center. Similar thing I'm gonna do here also. And I'm also taking little bit of white and on with it. And why it is very less compared to the right side, on the shadow side also there is little bit of white. Brown nine, the way you feel comfortable, it is no right or wrong here. So I generally like to rotate my canvas and hold it whichever way I find it easy. So adding a little bit more black on the side. Okay. Now, since I did a lot of blue, I'm just adding little bit of black over here to make that cool. No, the highlight is so much gone, right? So for that, I'm taking out it, actually it's gonna be better if I take out some pig body acrylics for doing the white snow, because we picked body acrylic, it's easier to create the texture rather than with the fluid acrylics. So I'm taking out just a little bit of pig buddy acrobatic. Alright, so I want to take some more blue. So since the highlight is almost covered while doing it. So I'll tell you the reason honestly, because I'm doing on a very small space, right? So that's why I like painting mountains on a big canvas. It's very easy for you to move around and in the small place becomes a little difficult. So I'm creating the middle line of the mountain as well. At this time. If that is not very visible, you can just go and create a line like this. What I like to do is add a good amount of white towards the midline just to make it very permanent. And then gradually I cannot do the technique and break it down. Alright. And just go a little bit on the side with a black shadow. And in the center is kinda Twain. I can just add a few of them. So this is basically going with another color in between if you feel you have too much. And that's it. Also I'm adding because if you look at the shadow side of the mountains, it's not really always dark. There are few snow falls on the left side, on the shadow side as well. So for that, I'm just adding little touch ups of white Karen there. Okay. I feel it's too much. So I'm adding little bit of black on top of it. You just go back and forth a couple of times, unless you're getting the exact thing that you'll want to achieve. Cool and you'll see that you 3D texture of the mountain is visible, right. 6. Basic Mountain Painting Demo - Part 2: Hi, so now I'm gonna do this one. The midline is going to be somewhere here and this one here. Okay? So now I'm going to do, use the technique. Do that I just showed on the side, which is I feel comparatively easier. So taking white and blue and very gently just tapping. For the age, I'm taking quite a bit of white. One good thing happens when you paint on a bigger scale. It, by the time you come back with a highlight and shadows or highlights, whichever you're doing later. The other section gyrase by then. The problem I'm facing in doing this small section is that it's not drying and I'm coming on top of it. So that is a little problem. So give it a little time, let it dry a little bit, and then also you can do Okay, I'm coming all the way in the center. Now. It's time to create the shadow on the other side and put that going like this. Especially where the mid-tone is, I am midline is I am creating the middle line. Something like this. Okay? Also, I'm taking some white and eating the absolute midline, like this. Same thing I'm doing here. Now. I'm doing the left side with black and blue. So this is the batch and pick up, touch and pick up. I'm going to add some more of white on the side as well. It's a little bit not as much as on the right side, which is still a little bit in that scene, they should. So the knife is a little bigger for this small area. So that's why I'm having a little trouble moving around. But in the next technique where you will learn to create the actual mountain, which I'm gonna do on a bigger area, is going to be much easier to move around. So you can clearly see the midline that has been created. And if it is not very visible, you can again go on top of it. And just with the age of the knife, you can create the midline that we want to. Also, one thing that you can do is just for the sake of showing that say you want to create right in front. So you call like this at the mountain. And on the left side you create the shadow for this. So you see this district, it's kinda easy. So even if you mess it up a little bit, you can always correct it. So you can see that how easy it is to create that 3D image of the mountain just by creating the shadow side and by creating the the highlight side. So just playing it out a little bit. Once it is dried, you can do whatever you feel has been missing. Okay? And like I said, I like this technique much more than this because I like kind of like dragging this. And I find it much easier. I showed you what the techniques, try it out, see which one you like. And then accordingly you can choose that. See again, I'm going back and doing it my way. But you have learned how to do it. So you should be able to do it now. Do it on a rough paper, this technique and understand how it is happening so that in the next class, next video, when I show you the actual mountain, you will be able to do it just well. Okay. So practice this a couple of times on another sheet of paper and experienced the fun of creating 3D mountains. 7. Painting A Snow Cap Mountain Range - Part 1: I hope you've practiced all the sketches that I shown and you are ready to paint a beautiful snow-capped mountain like this. So the one that you see at the back, this is the mountain that I'm going to teach you. Now. Have a look at this, I am going to attach though this photograph. Look at the broad range of the mountain. And I'm going to teach you this how to paint exactly this mountain. Alright? So the art supplies that you need for this class are, I'm going to use this color for creating the snow color, which is absolutely white here. But I'm going to use a little touch of this. And the other color I'm going to use is Prussian blue. So Prussian blue and this turquoise blue are the two colors that I'm using, but you can use any blue. So any, honestly any blue color is fine. Whichever blue-collar you use this, good. And along with that, I'm going to use a black and white. And I am going to use this knife to create this mountain or extras and the snow textures. I'm going to use the brush to create the background and the basic mountain shape. And I might use a liner brush. So I'm keeping one flat brush, one thin brush, and a knife. For this class. I had some Keeping my iPad out of the screen. And you can refer, download this picture and refer to it for this class. Okay, let me, let me start by taking out the colors. I'm using this paper palette because I find it easy to paint with knife. Just a tiny bit of blue. Black I'm going to take out later because black, I need only for shadowing, creating the shadows of the mountain. Okay, So I'm going to start by painting the sky. The sky is important to paint it because otherwise the mountain will not be that prominent. So just creating little bit of sky. I am trying to keep the gradation. I don't think I want to go down anymore. This much is fine. There's the mountain is going to come all the way till TO just want to make the top a little bit more dark. Because you always know that the sky is dark on the top and a light at the bottom. Trying to create that gradation of the sky. In the photograph, you see that the sky is the absolute smooth blend. But I like pictures, so I am keeping it like this. But if you want, you can make it as smooth blend as well. I got a good sky. Now, let's paint the mountain. Now the next step is creating mountains. So for that, I'm using pen and creating the outline that I see here in the And I'm trying to create the outline just like the way it is. Could be a little bit here and there, but that's okay. Who wants to create exactly what you see? Have your own fun. And now I am trying to create all the lines that I'm seeing here. See, once I start painting, this is all gonna get covered up, but I still want to do it a little bit to make you understand how I do a mountain. Alright, so this is good. Now I'm going to pin this on for painting. I'm going to mix blue and black. I start off by creating a dark shadow of the mountain. Okay? So now I'm not going to use directly black. So I'm going to mix the black and blue. And I am going to come here and being dead. And you see how identity you don't sketch it out. Okay, So whenever I am painting a mountain identity, look at the mountain directly and use my brush to move along. So right now, whatever I have sketched out, I might do a little adjustment to wait while painting with a brush. Okay, and like I said, all these outlines that I did, It's all going to get covered up. So this was just for my understanding, but it's not going to stay. Then I'm going to cover the entire mountain area with black. And as I'm coming down, I'm going to make it more bluish. So kinda black on the top and blue at the bottom. Pretty dark black. And now I'm coming to town. As I'm coming down, I'm going to add some more white and ended here. Alright, so this is my second step. So if you want to, you can ignore doing the drawing in the middle center lines that I did earlier because it's all gonna get covered up. So you can choose how you want to. But just for practice, you can just do it once so that you understand how things are progressing. And the texture really doesn't matter because it's all going to go in the background. And after this step, I'm going to start painting directly with the nice. Now, one important thing is I'm going to let it dry completely and then come and paint on it. 8. Painting A Snow Cap Mountain Range - Part 2: Okay, My background has completely dried and I will move on to doing the next step. So generally in this tape, I start painting directly with knife. So what I do is I just go along with it like this and create those divisions directly with my knife. But just to make it easy for you guys, I am going to show you to create the midline first and then do the texturing. For creating textures. I have taken out some thick body acrylics, which is white, and I have some fluid acrylic as well. And let me create All the mid lines that earlier I had done. So wherever I am making some mistake, I'm going to cover it up with the way like, Well, I do the actual stuff with the night and all the main peaks first and then some in the front. Okay. This is just a little bit off the drawing. I did. But so much of it is going to be done with a knife. I'm just washing it off and I will start painting with. Okay, so let's learn to create the textures. Other technique first. So first thing what I'm doing is taking simple white, nothing else on the back of my knife. And let me start with this one. I didn't like to start from the left so that as I'm moving to the right, my hand doesn't go on the texturing. Very less pain. So I had a lot. That's why I'm coming back here again to wipe it off. And you go almost on the border and very gently on top of this. She has such textures. Right? Again, if you have too much of paint on your knife, this is not going to come out Good. Make sure you have. So now you see this space is very little for the back of my knife. So what I'm gonna do is use the edge of the night and come here. And I'm going to do, I'm pretty much using the tip of the knife to be able to do this and touching very gently on the canvas. Now, like I said, I generally do don't do the sketching. So what I do is wherever I feel while painting, I just come. So say e.g. this is a mountain over here, which you can already see very clearly. I have already sketched out, right? But let's say it's not there. So what I do is I come here directly and create the mountain of my design. And then, you know, all those lines that we created, let me get scheduled for 1 s. So here you see all these curves and all these center lines, whatever Covey's Center lines are there for those, what I do is, so this one, I came and I moved my knife, and I created this one. And then I come here and basically use the knife to create the shape for me. But when you're jogging, make sure you are very less paint. Otherwise, the texture will not be created. So this is the end of this week. Okay? So this is where this peak ends and I'm Jack lead all the way down and going and adding a little bit like this. So sure also, I can create just one highlighted related stuff like this. Okay. Right now we continue overhaul and let me do this one. So absolutely on the age of the middle line, you can have a good amount of paint. If you see here, I have added very big amount of paint, but as you're migrating, Avi, make sure you have less paint so that you can create these kind of pictures, right? Bailey, I spent almost no paint and I'm just rushing the knife on top of this and leaving it at that. That's it. Because from here my right side is starting it. Okay. So the amount good amount of paint to add it on the clothes line of the midline. And then with very less amount, I'm just dragging it and look at the photograph. There is so much of textures with the snows. I'm creating those texture lines also at this point. Okay, not going too far away, because over here I'm going to create a good one. I'm a good amount of snow line and I'm using the edge of the night because it's a vape pen area. Using the age again and going all the way. Coming back here and this is again front snow peak. So for that, I am following this line. And then in the frontier. Now say good amount of paint has been added. Now, without adding too much, just dragging this paint out and creating this texture. Okay? Now what I wanna do is go all the way to the end. And at this, just to finish off the edge nicely. Okay, Now if I want to create some textures to this, what I'll do is use the age of the knife and kind of like, you know, create some pictures like this a little bit in different direction. It looks kind of like scratching off with the night. Alright, so this is done where it ends, where else? These are kind of a big mountain peak or rather lots of white snow over here in the center. So I'm just adding that. Alright, so this is done. This is done. And then doesn't that look already so awesome? You can see the peaks clearly just by adding the highlights. So all the highlights are added. I would say not all, but the main highlights are added. Now we're going to go and add the shadows on the other side. So the shadows are very clearly visible now because we added a black color at the back. But that's not all. We're going to go ahead on top of it and add the shadows. And then after that, we're going to do a mix-up, shadowing. 9. Painting A Snow Cap Mountain Range - Part 3: Okay, I'm going to wait for this to dry because this is thick body acrylics, so it's going to dry really. It's going to take some more time. At this moment, what I'm gonna do is go ahead and add the left side, which is the highlight side, and the color you can choose based on your preference. I really like this. This top is blue, so I'm going to use this color mixed with a little bit of black. The color that I'm going to create is this color. This is black. Folk Prussian blue mix also looks really good. So kind of a little bit of the Prussian blue. If you look at the photograph, the shade in the photo is pretty much this color that I created by mixing both talk with an operation or it can be just brushing as well. Okay? So again, I'm going to start from the left. So it's the same thing that we did on the left, except that color is different. And I'm going to take some white also with it. Okay, I'm going to keep moving it around to get the shape that I want. Kind of difficult to do it at the same place. And you see, it's kinda coming and mixing with the white. The black color that we did earlier is almost gone and even dissuade some of the, some of this dark color is going to come on top of the highlight, white that we have done. That is why I said that we're going to revisit the whites once I could see right now, it just came over here a little bit. So don't worry about the small, small stuff, it's going to happen. But our focus is mainly on creating shadows. Okay, coming here, adding some fixtures. And most important lecturing is on the left side of the middle life. So this is the middle line. You come here and I'm adding little white also along with it. Okay. Now, along with this, I'm gonna take some white and go ahead and add on top of this blend. The stop wherever I want to, not everywhere. Okay. So there's a peak and there's a little bit of white coming out with IDT or even sure I'm adding it touch ups. Okay, do you see how I am spoiling this part by adding some blues? But honestly for my experience, this kind of accidents, sometimes I leave them on if I like them or I fill it up. Okay. So depending on my mood, I do that. It's not really something I'm too worried about. Okay. So I'm coming on the ages of the white lines to make sure they are nicely done. I just had to make some more color. Okay, So that's a good amount of paint I mixed here. And now I will come to your ear. Okay, Now that most of the paint has been added here, I can create the texture that I want to. So for that, I'm taking little bit of light blue and coming here and adding some strokes, textures in different directions. Maybe little bit over your, maybe a little bit of white. You see the white over here is totally mixed up. But this, and I'm adding some more of white to this. I think it's too much or black, so let me just wipe it off and taking some more white in creating some fresh snow on top. Right? This is the thing that you can do wherever you want to. So if I want to add little bit of fresh snow here, I can do that. So all this mistake that happen, you can just go on top of this and cover it up, add a thick layer of snow and it will be gone in no time. So it's not something to really worry about why you are adding the shadow color. Okay, Now, let me go here and add especially the shadow is very important exactly on the other side of the meat to Midland. Okay. So it's sure and at this place I'm just going in all directions. So remember while sketching also, I was going in all directions. And I said I kind of liked doing that. So I'm going to go in whatever direction you feel like it just have fun with it. I absolutely loved doing that. It may not turn out exactly how it is, but it's going to turn up really awesome. Really like this blue shade. So I'm going to add a little touch ups here as well. Okay? So this part is added next to this side and gradually moving towards the right. Can you see while doing the shadows, I'm getting on top of the white also little bit. So if you are watching this and doing it for the first time, if you can come up with it directly, it's a great thing. But if you are not able to do this, please don't think that it's you. Trust me, it's happened with everybody. I did it. I have done this mountain probably thousand times. Okay. So it's kind of looks like I'm doing it so easily. It's easy for me only because I've done it many, many times. And I want you to understand that. So if you're doing it for the first time, don't be too hard on yourself. Give yourself a pat on your back just for trying this first time and then do it at least three times more. Do it four times and telling me, how do you feel about this? I'm 100% sure. Once you have done this for like four times, you will do such amazing mountains, even you wouldn't believe yourself. So trust me on that because I usually remember I'm telling you not some random number because I remember when I started doing this, I didn't like it at all. I think I first created mountains in 2017, after my first Himalayan mountain trick, I came back home. I was like, I have to paint mountains. And I remember doing it on small canvas and absolutely not liking it. And then I did it again and again and again, unless I was really happy with what I did. And it was by the fourth time that I was really happy. So I'm telling you by my own experience, that don't be too hard on yourself when you do it first-time. Okay. So now if you look at the photo, there is, just to show this mountain, I have to add some highlights here to show that distinction. So only by light and shadow that you're differentiating because we just playing with very little amount of paints, right? So to show the difference, you have to use light and shadow a lot. And here, there's a lot of snow in this center area if you look at the photograph. So I'm going to do all of that, come all the way here and go like this. And then a little bit of it is coming here. That's it. Now I'm going to add, if you see that texture over here is kind of like vertical lines. So I have already added the column. All I'm going to do is use the edge of the knife and create this. Having fun in the process. Absolutely fine. Also, I feel I want to correct this line little bit. And for that, what I'm doing is taking this shadow color and this white. Yeah. I mean, it's not collecting. It was fine. I'm just doing what I am seeing in this photograph so that you understand where I'm coming from. Some snow here, some shadow. As you can see in the center, the green mountain is coming, which I am not doing. So I am going ahead with this and imagining what it would be like over here at the backside. And creating gin, Which is like in from this side to this side. It's alright, so this is pretty much done. And what awesome. One more thing I don't like is that this line is E Street, right? So let me go over it and make it a little refracted. And I'm using just the tip of the knife to do this. And some of the snow is falling. This link, link connection between here and here. So all those details, I love doing them small things, but they just look so good. And because I've been to the Himalayas and seeing this up close, it's, you know, that this is exactly what is happening over there. The snow is falling from the top. Okay. This place I feel it's a little less wide, so I'm just going to go and add just a little touch up all y in a very extreme way. And even display as you see, it's vague, kind of dark. So I'm not going to cover it up a lot, but just a very smooth halite, like almost no paint on my knife. Just a little bit. Shooting with the back of this thing I'm doing everywhere, almost wherever. There are little. Look at this list. This is a very black and I don't want that. So I am taking some bluish, blackish white. Okay? And I'm coming here and write a few textures of white over there. I'm fixtures with the edge of the knife is these are kind of like vertical axis. Right? So what was done and creating some white snow textures here I'm dead. I think. This is it. You can play around with it at some more textures here and they're very fun thing to do. And you can see how nicely or 3D texture. So if I hold it like this, it looks like almost like a 3D mountain, right? So this was the longest step, the last step of adding highlights and the shadows. And also one more thing I want to say is that if you like over here, there's a lot of white tonight on this week. Now, what I'm doing is taking a little bit of shadow and going and adding just a little bit on top of just to make it not so white. And you can happily do this wherever the white is dried. If it is weight, it's going to mix up. Let's say this one is pretty dried. So can go on top of this and add a few of the shadows. More such texturing you keep on doing kind of realistic. It starts becoming already it is looking very realistic. Just playing around with it and doing lots of stuff to it. All right, so that's all for the mountain class. Try this out and let me know. What came out of your night. I am excited to see what do you do and thank you for joining. 10. Your Project + Final Words: So that's it. We reached the end of this class. I hope you enjoyed this class and learning new ways of looking at mountains and be able to paint it with a knife. Now your project for this class is to practice the midline of the mountains. Just browse random images on the Internet, look at some mountains and just sketch it on your journal and, you know, try to shade it like exercise I showed you here. See how well you're able to do it. Because if you just try it once, you will absolutely be able to understand by looking at a photograph, mountain photograph, how it is to be done. Then after doing this, your next project is to practice the knife techniques and just do a little bit of the basic mountain, a structure like this. You don't have to do exactly. Both of these are watching it is enough. But while you're practicing the techniques, just try it on a canvas by adding a darker shade and then adding the snow white color on top of it to see if you're able to get the right knife extra, like I have shown you, they follow along with this one where I have showed you step-by-step how to create the beam, create this snow-capped mountains. So paint along with me Do not try to think too much. If you just do it once, follow the entire steep and to this painting, you will be able to create any other painting after that. So after you have done this following my step-by-step tutorial in this class, you will be able to take any picture and paint landscapes like this. Look at this mountain range over here is looking so 3D straight as if it's coming out from the painting. And even paintings like this. Check-in, check-out. Just so that you can eat. Your project for this class is to be able to create paintings like this on your own without following any tutorial. Because if you actually understand the techniques, It's so easy, you can not just these two paintings that I'm showing you that I have done, but you can get any picture online, art pitches that you have clicked and you should be able to do so. I wish you the very best for painting mountains. And thank you so much for joining me in this class and I will see you in the next. I invite you to explore all the different classes that I've created for you here in Skillshare. If you want to apply your paintings scale, and create some amazing landscapes. 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