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Landscape Acrylic Painting for Beginners - Simple and Easy Lesson

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome

      1:02

    • 2.

      Materials

      0:56

    • 3.

      Sky and background trees

      4:43

    • 4.

      Horizon line

      3:03

    • 5.

      Houses in the distance

      2:35

    • 6.

      Foreground boulders

      9:05

    • 7.

      Highlights on boulders

      1:53

    • 8.

      Layer of foliage

      7:49

    • 9.

      Placing the branches

      5:29

    • 10.

      Second layer of foliage

      4:27

    • 11.

      Highlights for the tree

      2:22

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About This Class

You can make beautiful acrylic paintings just like the ones you see on Pinterest or in museums?

Your first steps into the world of acrylics in a fun, relaxed and stress free environment.

The techniques used in this class are very simple and easy to do.

This course is designed for beginners eager to learn the basics of painting.

You will learn:

  • How to use acrylics.
  • The basic principles of painting and you will see how to use brushes and other tools.
  • To mix your colors and how to get the best results.
  • About composition and atmospheric perspective 
  • Easy to use tips and tricks with vibrant images to help you learn faster with little effort.



The course is done with Acrylics which are very easy to use. You can complete your paintings with a professional quality in just a few hours!

Not only will you learn techniques but you will also learn about composition, atmosphere and many other helpful tips that will allow you to create gorgeous l artworks in the future.

With this course, you will be able to create beautiful paintings that you can display at home or give as gifts.

This is an opportunity you will not want to miss.

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George-Daniel Tudorache

Together we will create amazing things.

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Hello, I'm George

Together we will create amazing things.

Would you like to paint with more freedom or feeling?

You will be finding ways to develop your own way of applying paint and to compose the visual space.

You'll learn painting techniques used by professional artist to create elaborate works of art.

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1. Welcome: Hello and welcome to another beautiful painting class. In this class, you will learn how to make this simple landscape with acrylic paints. My name is George, and I'll be guiding you through this beautiful journey. Would over ten years experience as a professional artist. Many exhibitions, both group and solo shows, and with over 10 thousand students, both online and in-person, I've developed a very beautiful method of teaching that focuses on having fun and making a beautiful project. Who says painting needs to be complicated. You only need two brushes and a few paints with a few simple tricks and tips, you will create this wonderful landscape in no time, you will learn so much about creating foliage, making a wonderful sky, and some beautiful stones and everything you will learn in this course can be applied to many more paintings. Now let's get into the exciting class. 2. Materials: For this amazing class, you will need a few materials. Let's go into them now. You will need a canvas that is 50 by 50 centimeters, a square canvas, and a big flat brush to cover the canvas very fast. You will also need a small round brush with a tip. This will be good for making foliage as well as some textures. You will also need a cup of water and a beautiful place to put the colors. Speaking of the colors, you will need acrylic paint. This is Amsterdam acrylic paints, brilliant blue. We'll also need some carmine red, also Amsterdam and some beautiful primary yellow. And of course the wonderful white. This is titanium white and some beautiful paper towels. And that's all you need to complete this beautiful course. 3. Sky and background trees: Welcome to the first step. In this one, you will be using only the big flat brush together with some water, some blue, some yellow, and some white, you will create a beautiful sky, not only that, but using the corner of the brush, you will also create some distant trees. For the trees to create some atmospheric perspective, they need to be painted on the wet sky. This will blend the color of the skies with the foliage and create some wonderful textures. Now let's go into the step. Let's add some white onto the plates, as well as some yellow. And of course, after the yellow is on the plate, you can add some brilliant blue to the left side of the plate as well. Grabbing the big flat brush, taking some water, water is quite important. Here. It will make the paint be wet longer. Let's take some white and fill that brush with some white, just a tiny bit of blue in order to create this wonderful blue in the middle of the plate. And a tiny bit of yellow. Just a smaller part. Right in the middle. Let's see the color and right below the middle section, the Canvas. Let's create some beautiful textures, grabbing some more of this paint and easily going with some water onto the canvas, creating a wonderful gradient. Spreading that color from left to right and grabbing the hairs if they fall off the brush and at the top, Let's add some more color. Can start to see why the big brush is so handy. Very fast and loose. In a few seconds you can cover almost half the Canvas. Let's take some water and add some of this paint lower, creating a base for the lake. Adding some more white in the middle of the plate. Just a tiny bit more. With some white right in the middle of the canvas, you can start to layer and create the gradient even more pronounced. Don't go too high or too low, just stick to the middle and blend it into the wonderful sky. Can also go down a little bit into the lake, grabbing some more white and layering another beautiful line of this gradient. Going higher, just a tiny bit to have more paint. Just where the trees will start to appear. In a few moments. Grabbing some blue and making a darker blue and adding it at the top of the canvas. Blending exactly like your blended the white with some water. Blending the app the top, creating this wonderful transition in-between the white and the blue. The more you blends, the softer the sky is. Don't go overboard Just a few times. Let's grab some yellow and mix it over this wonderful blue. Just a tiny bit more and some blue to create darker green. For the 3s, a tiny bit more yellow. And with the corner of the brush, we're going to dab and rotate the brush to create wonderful frieze right over here. Try to focus on the edge, making them higher and lower, and rotating the brush in order to create different textures. If you keep the brush on a single side, it will create the same stamp over and over. So they need to be a tiny bit different. As you can see as you go to the sides, the threes are a little bit lighter. That's because the color of the sky has entered into the brush. Let's brush the bottom side of the trees just to blend them more with the background. And there you go with this wonderful and easy step. In this step you've learned how to make beautiful and easy gradients with the big flat brush and how fun it is to use it on its side to create wonderful atmospheric perspective. By making some trees. You don't have to over-complicate a sky with too many clouds or textures. A simple gradients that you can make with a big brush from left to right can be the perfect background for a painting. And now let's go into the next step. 4. Horizon line: In this step you will be using the big flat brush in order to create some shadows and a ground for the trees to sit on. You will be doing that by adding some red to the prolapse and making some wonderful oranges as well. Now let's go into the step. At this stage, it doesn't matter if the paint is dry or wet. Let's grab the brush. It still has some blue and some yellow into it, but it needs a bit more. So let's mix some on the plate and also add some red to make that color tiny bit darker. Not too much. Adding some more yellow and seeing that color beautiful. Now on the right side of the trees, the colors seems tiny bit too dark, so let's mix it in tiny bit more. On the right side of the trees, just at the bottom, you can create some wonderful shadows. You can start to see from the left and a little bit lower. If your paint is still wet, it's easier to integrate the shadows. Remember to blend those bottom shadows a bit more by dragging the brush from left to right. Taking the brush, taking some wonderful red and some yellow to create wonderful ground color. It still has some blue and some white from the previous layers. This is how you integrate colors into each other. Let's create this wonderful horizon line just below the middle section of the Canvas. Just go from left to right. Press quite hard in order to blend those colors and create some wonderful streaks of paints. Now, let's add some white because you don't want to go too dark, way too fast to create so much contrast. We need to keep everything very light. Now with this white and some yellow on the darker orange color, Let's create a highlight. Can start to see. It also feels like a wonderful highlights. Let's grab some more color and place it right on top at the intersection of the trees with the ground going from left to right with the corner of the brush. Let's make sense some more highlight and make it a tiny bit more yellow and drag another beautiful line over the first layer of paint. And there you go with this step as well. This was a very easy and simple one. By not cleaning the brush, you've integrated the sky colors into the shadows as well as the ground where the trees stay. You can start to see how organic it feels and looks to paint like this, you've also created a very beautiful horizontal line to contrast with the beautiful vertical trees. Now let's go into the next step. 5. Houses in the distance: In this one, you will be using the round brush to create some wonderful highlights on the ground. You will also create two beautiful houses in the distance. Now, let's go into this step. You can start to see the horizon line. It's a little bit angled so we need to make it straight. Let's take some water and a little bit of this paint and make the distance a little bit more integrated with a wash of this green. Preparing also the canvas in order to have some water and some paint. So they play with each other and create some wonderful waves at the bottom and textures at the top, blending a little bit more of these colors. And on the left, let's add some darker tones with some red and some yellow. It's beautiful. Orange. Let's add a roof just over here in the middle. What a line and make it trapeze and blend it a little bit so it goes into the background a tiny bit more. Let's take a highlight and make a wall right beneath it. Just like this. Making a wonderful wall, just the beautiful square rectangle. And taking some more of that roof color and cutting this roof once again and on the right, making another roof. And the small chimney at the top, just a beautiful small line. The house needs a tiny bit more highlight onto the wall, and the house on the right needs this wall as well. Now for the roof, let's make it a little bit more angled and a tiny bit higher. Let's make another beautiful house in the distance right over here. This one is a little bit more blurred. And with this highlight color from the walls, we can put it on the shore. And since the horizon line is a little bit lower onto the left, Let's go higher and create a straighter line for the horizon line. And now let's add a little bit more color onto the ground with this highlights. And there you go with this step as well. By using a few light colors, you've integrated much more the ground with the sky and the trees, also with some geometric forms. You've created some simple houses in the distance. Now, let's go into the next step. 6. Foreground boulders: Now for some wonderful rocks, Let's play with paint and understand how to create them with the round brush and some yellow as well as a tiny bit of red creating this light, pastel yellow. Now, with this orange, we will create a beautiful L that has a longer bottom, taking some white and creating a wonderful highlights. And with this new pastel light closing in the shape on top of the L with angular motions. And as you go towards the shadow part, you can turn the brush and rotate it right where the shadow meets the highlight in order to create some beautiful textures and blend the two beautiful colors. Let's make a green. And just to add some beautiful color variety, Let's add some green, right, where the shadow and the highlight meet and make a few more rocks very loose and fast. You can also take the highlight and cut into the rock once again, as well as going on to the other rocks, creating more and creating another beautiful rock onto the bottom side. Let's have some shadow for it. Can start to see how easy it is once you know the shape and let the brush rotate a little bit to create some beautiful textures and angles. Let's take some more of this red and make a deeper shadow. And go and angle those wonderful shadows onto the left hand bottom side of the rocks, going even wider. Widths some highlights and touching the rocks here and there to create more textures and highlights. When creating rocks, It's important to think of the brush as a knife. You are cutting shapes in order to create sides of the rocks. Use an L-shaped that is broken in order to create a nest for the highlight. And as soon as you touch that shadow, you can blend the two colors together, creating nice and beautiful mid-tone. Remember to focus on angles and edges to create beautiful faces for the rocks. You should also add some greens on top of the oranges in order to create some beautiful harmony and color dynamics. And that's all you need to create some wonderful boulders. It's time for some beautiful vibrant oranges. These will contrast so well with the background and the sky. And it will contrast with the foliage of the tree as well, because orange and green are complimentary colors. Now, let's go into this step with a clean, fresh plate, some white as well as some blue on the mixing plate. Let's grab the round brush, some water, mix, some white and a tiny bit of blue, just to have a color underneath everything. This is because the painting is completely dry, so it needs a little bit of a color of the sky just to contrast and make those oranges more integrated. Let's grab this white and spread it around. This is a good time to blend the ground and make it more horizontal as well, okay. And covering the bottom side of the canvas, putting down the brush and adding some yellow to the mixing plate onto the right side. Going and adding some red right next to it. With the brush having some white and some blue still on it. You can add some yellow right over here. And some reds slowly add yellow and red until you have this wonderful creamy yellow. Look at how beautiful this pastel yellow looks. Very light and color. And start with a big, beautiful Boulder right over here. Look at how wonderful it contrasts because of the blue in the background and going down and creating some more textures. And going towards the corner, adding another bolder just over here, right on the right side, as well as going onto the left and creating a bigger shape, curving towards the left and right below the horizon line. Taking some reds and some white in order to create a more orangey pastel color. And focusing on separating some of those stones into smaller sections with that beautiful sea or L shape, making a lighter version of this yellow, orange and adding some more stones below the shadows can also add this highlights, since it's a little bit different on the top as well. Now let's clean the brush on the canvas on the left-hand side and add a little bit more white to it in order to add another highlight onto the top right where the ground meets the stone. Focusing on the angles going down towards the bottom of the canvas and creating some more sides and highlights. Working from light to dark. This time, since it will create much more interesting textures. Now going a little bit more red and increasing the area of these stones towards the bottom side of the canvas. Okay, taking some red and some yellow to make it more orange, a more saturated orange. And let's focus on making these angles for the shadows on each individual Stone. Think of them as round, angular boulders. And another one right over here. And one on the left, rotate a little bit the brush to create some interesting textures, right where the highlight meets this new Middletown. Rounded, just like this, to create more chaotic brush marks, just so they don't seem like just angles taking some more reds and mixing in some yellow, as well as a tiny bit of blue just to make a darker brown. Taking some more red and some more yellow and adding it just below the orange you've just added. Don't worry if it's too contrasty. You will blend it a bit more with some lighter tones. And focusing on the intersection in-between the stones, trying to find some small lines just above them. And creating new stones by focusing on that L shape and creating that nest for the wonderful highlights. Now going on the Middle Stone and don't forget about the corner and the right side. Going even closer because the paint is still wet, it will pick up some of the color and it will become lighter. Now let's take some water and thin the paint. Let's clean a little bit the brush. You can add this watery shadow color, right, where it meets with the orange and with the highlights, just so it blends a little bit more. Don't go overboard. Just a tiny bit in order to define that C or l line. Taking some blue and mixing it in with this watery color to create a beautiful green just to add some more color variety right on the middle side of the stones as well as on the right side of the stones, can start to see how just a tiny bit of this new color brings them to life. A little bit more blue over this watery part and adding and focusing on the bottom side edge. And there you go with this step. A lot of people when painting, they over-complicate things, but they don't need to be complicated in order to look good with just a few brush marks and a little bit of technique. You can make beautiful style. And it has that painterly feel because you've rotated the brush and the paint was still wet. So those layers were integrating with each other, creating beautiful and luscious textures. Now, let's go into the next step. 7. Highlights on boulders: Just to make the stones a little bit more interesting, you will add some new highlights with a thicker layer of paint. Now let's go into this step. In order to have beautiful, crisp and vibrant colors, you need to clean up the brush with some paper towels and some water. Clean it very well. Take some white, find a good nice area to mix them. Colors, grab some yellow, just a tiny amount of yellow, and the small, small amount of blue. Once you've mixed that color well, you can start to focus on the top side of the stones. You can start to see how light this color is and start integrating and cutting some of these highlights. Remember to leave the middle tones as well as the shadows quite intact. Let's add another stone in-between those two ones. And focus on the beautiful sides, the right side of the boulders, taking some more color and looking for some spaces where you can make some smaller stones. Now another trick is to roll the brush a little bit over the middle tones just to create more interesting textures, as well as integrate this color even more, creating a nicer transition. It can also drag the brush a little bit over the paint just to make it more interesting and adding some more highlights over the top, just like that. Taking some reds and some white and mixing this beautiful pink just to add some more color variety to the Stones. Perfect. And there you go with this wonderful step as well. 8. Layer of foliage: But when painting, a lot of people struggle with making organic textures, but of course, it doesn't need to be that way. And in this exercise, you will learn how to make the best textures with the round brush and acrylic paints. You'll also learn about positioning and the layering of the highlights on top of the shadows. Now let's go into the exercise, of course, with the round beautiful brush taking some yellow and some blue to make a wonderful green, to cut the screen and make it much more dark, we need to put some more yellow and some more red into it just to make it darker and more interesting. A very dark shadow color. And with the tip of the brush perpendicular to the Canvas. Let's press down and make some wonderful foliage. You can rotate the brush in order to create different textures. Now, taking some yellow and making a wonderful highlight color, this doesn't need to be perfect. And on the right side of this side that has been created, let's put some highlights. You can start to see how the colors mingled together in order to create wonderful textures. Grabbing some more highlight and another beautiful tip you can see right over here is that you have two zones of highlights and shadows. Those mark two different zones of the three and they create much more interesting separation. Let's make them more light version of this highlight in order to make even more separation between the shadows and highlights. Remember the highlights are not always on the edge. On the right. They also go a little bit into the middle and they expand towards the right. You can start to see on the right side how dark those beautiful shadows are and how colorful the midtones are, and how much they play with the final highlights. Remember to put some water onto the canvas board to use it for other exercises. There you go with this exercise. In this exercise you've learned how to play with the round brush first by making some shadows. When making these shadows, you need to avoid making round shapes. You break down that roundness by going a little bit to the side and creating another pocket of leaves. And as you go towards the edge, the edge needs to be very intricate. The more intricate, the more beautiful it is. You need to also keep this in mind for the mid tones and the highlights. Also when creating those shadows and mid tones, you need to tone it down and don't put a lot of paint onto the canvas. And remember not to cover the whole area with the shadow and the mid tone. You still need some spots for the highlights and you also need some holes for the birds to fly through in regards to making organic textures is to work a little bit faster and have all the paint's still wet. Don't be afraid of wet paint. The trick is to only work in the areas you want to change and keeps some of the previous layers untouched. And that's all you need to know to make beautiful foliage. As you've seen with the exercise, foliage is very simple. Now you will play with some dark foliage, not only for the three, but also for some bushes. These are very easy things to do with our round brush. Remember, you will need to leave space for the middle tones and the highlights, so don't put too many shadows. Let's go into the step. Let's rotate this wonderful plate. Let's grab the round brush and clean it up. Grabbing some red and some wonderful yellow, maybe a little bit more yellow and some blue to create this great shadowy green color, mixing in some more red and some more yellow, just to make it quite dark. Now some blue to make it more green. Whoops, too much reds. Let's add some more blue. It's okay because it will create a dark, beautiful green. Now, let's go over here on the right side of this folder and create some pushes, small little textures. Now it's time to focus on that edge. Just a little bit. Four or five touches. You've created a wonderful bush. Now right in-between these two stones, you can create another one. Just over here. Now on the right, a smaller, wonderful patch of grass, a little bit higher, even though they are not connected. Once the highlight and the middle tone will be put there, it will look integrated. And going higher. Just a tiny bit. You can start to see the inner side of the bush creates a very defined contour against the stones. Now, let's go higher and make another Bush just over here and lower. Making a wonderful patch. Maybe it's two clumped up, but it's fine. That's why it's good to always leave some space for the birds. Let's cover this part a bit more to connect it. Taking some more color and focusing on the top side. And right in the middle over here on the left side, creating a beautiful interesting shape. You can see it's not round. It has many, many interesting edges going towards the right and making another clump just right here. And crossing the middle of the canvas just onto the right and making another clump of leaves. These clumps don't need to be very complicated. You can make them as fast as you want. And taking some blue and some red and some yellow just to make more color. And above just in the middle, making another area of foliage. You can start to see how distant they are. This is because you need space for the highlights and the middle towns. And the hiring gets. You can add some more blue, some more yellow and make this color once again, just to make it a tiny bit darker onto the left side. Dabbing some more of this wonderful color, playing around with the brush to find another space. And once you found it, you can go fast and loose on the top corner, creating some textures. Making a tiny bit more with the blue and the red and some yellow. Okay? And going and adding more color to this left side. Now it's time to focus a little bit on the edges and make them more varied. You can start to see how separated it looks right now, but it will look very close together by the end, since you have two more layers of paint, add, the areas will increase. And there you go with this step as well. Sometimes going faster is better because it allows you to bypass the thinking mind and it lets you create some organic texture. It's a wonderful balance between having a few rules and going fast. In order to not think too much, you can start to see how fun painting can be if you let go and embrace a little bit of the chaos. Now let's go into the next step. 9. Placing the branches: In this exercise, you will practice how to make some branches with the beautiful round brush. This exercise focuses on how to make small and thin lines with a round brush. And now let's go into the exercise. We have some colors over here, red, blue, yellow, and white. And with some water on the round brush, Let's make a beautiful brown. It doesn't matter exactly what color you use. Just making some quick brown with some red, some blue and some yellow. And then with the beautiful brush, you can go and make a line, rotate the brush just a tiny bit in order to create this wonderful branch. Okay, now, going on to the left and making another branch on the left, it's very important when creating branches to not divide them at the same point. You can divide them a little bit higher so they don't look like forks with each beautiful stroke trying to make them quite thin. And as they go down, they need to be thicker and don't make them all round. Try to make them quite angular as well. It's always beautiful to have a beautiful mix between the round and straight branches. Let's mix up some highlights. And on the right side, just as you did for the branches, you need to create a highlight. And of course with this highlight, you will also create some branches, maybe the light hits them just a tiny bit. You can also change the color in order to create a beautiful warmer highlights. And as you can see, this is one of the tips. Whenever using the round brush, you can put it on the plate and make a wonderful thinner tip in order to cut some beautiful highlights or branches wherever you want. Let's put some water on this. And after you've covered all the canvas with water, Let's scrape it down with the wonderful paper towels. Cleaning up the brush. And there you go with this wonderful exercise. So when it comes to branches, you need a variety between straight and curvy one. Not only that, but you need to make sure whenever you are taking paint, you also keep in mind to make a beautiful tip on the brush. And also whenever you divide them, try to not make a fork. Those are all the tips you need to make wonderful branches, like in the exercise now it's time to make some branches. And the three, you first made the shadow parts of the foliage in order to have the branches create this wonderful effect. Where do they seem like they are in-between the layers? And now let's go and create those wonderful branches. Grabbing the round brush, straight up, grabbing some red and some yellow to create a wonderful brown, orangey color. Taking some water, making it a tiny bit more blue, creating a dark brown. If it has more red and more yellow, then it becomes a brown instead of a green. Right above this wonderful bush, you can start to lay in the tree. This can be a bit thicker. And on the right side you can start to divide it into two branches, going higher and wiggling a little bit of the brush and making a smaller, thinner branch just going into the back, going and making a straight branch onto the right side and going longer with the first one. Now getting higher over this shadow foliage and below it, just so it seems like it passes through the foliage. Focusing on those beautiful connections and going higher with thinner lines. The higher you go, the thinner are the lines. Now let's go in the middle and try to connect the right side of the tree with some wonderful branches. Don't go overboard, don't create too many branches. Just a few. We'll indicate the tree and making sure that it connects to the bushes as well as the stones. Now let's divide this branch a little bit more over here and create another one, chest onto the right of it. Trying to connect the left side as well to the three, making it a bit thicker. And dividing this branch as well, just once or twice is enough to create a beautiful branch. And let's dance a little bit and find another spot for a wonderful branch, maybe just over this foliage and connect it to the bigger branch and higher. Just getting what another branch in the middle. Don't worry, you can cover some of the mistakes with the middle tones and the highlights. There you go with this step as well. 10. Second layer of foliage: What a fun step this will be. You will use the round brush to create some beautiful and colorful foliage. You will focus on those middle tones and highlights to create great looking textures, remember to rotate the brush so it creates different looking dabs. Also, since the light comes from the right side, of course the highlights will be on the top right side of the foliage. Now let's go into the step. Let's grab some paper towels and clean the brush of this brown. Clean it very well. And then with some yellow and some blue, creating a beautiful green. Taking some more yellow and mixing it very well together, grab a tiny bit of reds, put it on the side, and if you need, you can put in more until it changes the green. So it's not so neon. Since this will be the middle tone. Grab some water and start on the bushes right over here to make some textures. On the right side look at how beautiful and vibrant this color is already. It can also go over the shadows a little bit. Okay. Going up and creating some more dabs of paint, some more areas of this Middletown. You can start to notice how much separation it builds width the lake and the background. Now going in the middle and creating a few patches of this wonderful Bush Color. And over the tree, just over here making the bush bit more big. Taking some more yellow or more blue, creating the same exact color. Maybe a little bit of red, just to cut that intensity of the color. And going over the three. Now you can start to see how it looks like the branches are going in between the layers. Going higher and going faster, Frank, to keep those spaces still open for the birds to fly through. And on the right side, just going on the top right now. And on the right side, right near the edge. Just dabbing some of this color, grabbing some yellow and mixing it in over this color and width, a tiny bit of red. Just a tiny bit. And you can start to see some wonderful new orange, yellow highlights. Fair yellow with a touch of red just to cut that intensity out. And focusing a little bit more on the brush marks, just barely touching and using the brush to create some small dots here and there on the bushes. Taking some more water and some more paint and going up. You've taking the water just so it blends a bit more with the middle tones. Taking some more yellow and going and adding this color over the top of the middle tones. As you can see, the tree starts to develop and it has less and less space empty. Now going on the top and dabbing some of this color on the side of the middle tone areas. Now going with some white and a tiny bit of blue, mixing it in with this yellow to create an even lighter highlight. And of course, even higher on the areas of the tree. You can go with this color. Let's make another beautiful Bush just over here on the left. Add this highlight on the bushes right next to the tree as well. And there you go with this step. See how fun it is to just let go and paint with a few simple rules to guide you in order to create wonderful foliate by playing with some vibrant greens and yellows, you've created a beautiful contrast between the sky and the beautiful boulders. And you've separated the foreground from the background even more by using a bigger contrast between the dark parts of the foliage and the highlights. Now let's go into the final step. 11. Highlights for the tree : Can you believe that this is the last step? Look how easy and fun it was to create this wonderful painting with just a few highlights on the trees you will be finished and have a beautiful artwork to hang or give as a gift. Now let's go into the step, grabbing the round brush and cleaning it off with some paper towels. Taking some yellow and some red, making a beautiful orange and making it lighter with some white, mixing it very well together. And on the right side of the branches. And the three, you can make a beautiful highlight. This is very easy. Just think of the highlight as a smaller branch. Always remember to put the tip of the brush on the plate to create a wonderful side. You can also create some lighter branches. These will look so good and make the tree look more interesting. Okay? And going over here and making another beautiful branch, as well as a highlight going higher and making another branch just on the right and trying to make a thin highlights onto the other branches. And wherever you see a space, you can add another beautiful branch and extend the ones you already have. Like for instance, on this side, on the left, just going higher into the foliage and in the middle, just slowly inching and making them longer. Covering a little bit more of the right side of the tree. You can add this color to the stones a little bit more just to integrate some of this color back into the stones. And there you go. You've done it. You've finished another beautiful painting. You've learned so much about letting go and having fun with painting. Thank you for being part of this community. And if you are gracious enough, you can leave a review. See you in the next class.