Landscape Painting for Beginners: Create Stunning Mountain Scenery

1. Introduction: Hi there. Welcome to my class on landscape painting for beginners, create stunning mountain scenery. If you've ever looked like a beautiful mountain scene and thought, Wow, I wish I could paint that. You're in the right place. In this class, I'll guide you step by step to paint this peaceful landscape with green fields, distant mountains, and a tall tree that brings the scene to life. You don't need any experience. I'll show you everything from scratch in a fun and simple way. We learn how to build depth, blend colors, and create light and shadows to make your painting look realistic and beautiful. By the end of this class, you'll have your own finished painting and the confidence to create even more. So grab your brushes and let's bring this mountain view to life. I'll see you inside. 2. Mountain Ranges Painting: Hi, and welcome back to a new video. In this video, let's go ahead and paint in some mountains. So to paint the mountains, I have some water on the side, and I'll dip my angular brush in water. And let's take in some white and some blue. This is brushian blue. Okay? Let's take in some more white, a decent little color. Let's take in some more flat white. W look a bit disterent. And let's come right over here at the top at the peak of that mountain you dye in sort of placing his color. This brush works perfect when you want to get those angles to sharp edges. This is a very beautiful brush to paint far off mountains, especially at the very back. I'll take in some white and just sort of give a bit give more miss to this mountain. Okay, something like that, and make the bottom a bit mistier. Let the top be a bit darker, but you can also if you want, you can blur the top of these mountains just a bit, not too much to make them look natural and misty. Okay. Look at that. You might go out and add in some snow on this mountain and also we have another mountain coming over here, the rive This is how the mountains going to look. I'll take in some more of this color. Maybe this t be a bit darker. Cis in. Blue color always beautifies your painting. Also, we need to make sure that the mist is seen so that there's some separation between this mountain and that mountain. Yeah. There we go. So you want to have that realistic effect in a painting. Drying the paint like this, taking off the excess paint. That's what I'm going to do it here. Now for this, let's go add in some more mist, simple, some white. And you have to do this when it's white. Of course, when you're doing painting, it'll take several weeks to try and you'll have a lot of time to go and blend what you want to do. But these are acrylics. So you can just go ahead and do after it's dry. Of course, you can do something like drips blending, but not here. Yeah. Look at that. We have two mountains instantly. So in the next video, let's go to see how to apply some snow and some highlights on these two mountains. Thank you. See you in the next video. 3. Snow On Mountains: Hi, and welcome back to our new video. In this video, let's go to see how to paint snow and some highlights on these two mountains. I've wiped off my brush. This is the same brush with which we gave the backdrop for these two mountains, and I have the same palette. I haven't changed it. And I've wiped off this brush completely, and this is 50% dry, and this is almost dry. So let's sing some white, pure white. Don't take a lot of that. Then let's comes about in here. I'm doing this when it's not completely dry. Taking some advantage here on this medium of paint, something like that. Let just not be too bright in the first code itself, later on, you can make up your mind to make it even brighter, you can do it, but you can't do the other way around. Okay. And something over here today a bit not much. I'm still using the angular brush, so this is the only brush I'm using as of now. I've not changed the brush. Sort of come here and sort of blend that sort of blend. Okay, I got some paint there. Yeah. That can be fixed pretty easily. Acrylics is so forgiving. Okay, something like that. You create some interesting painting automatically, and it, like, grab the viewers attention. Look at that? Let's tick in some of that over here as well. And as I said, this is 50% dry. That's it. So we have to make it to our advantage. Let's sort of place in same strokes, same strokes as there, except that this is not completely dry so it'll take up the paint which is underneath. Look at that. It's easy sort of tapping it and pouring. Take an s paint and sort of brighten some of those corners. Yeah. Yeah, it's something over here, too. Yeah a bit. It's like you're sculpting a mountain with ice. Simple. You put it in simple perspective. It's like you're sculpting the mountain with ice. So that's how I look at Okay, something like that. And let's in some more brighter color. That's coming. Yeah, that's it. You can go to blend that. Okay, that's simple sort of create a misefect and it will be taken care automatically. And I'm just sort of blending this not to give in too much details for these two mountains. Of course, in the future, if you want one, you can add them before it's too late. Yeah. Something like that. And something we here to just bit. Not much. So if you don the brush, take offs paint off the brush. Sort of paint this in. And it also indicates some snow action on these mountains. Okay, let me wend all these together and come with a single highlight. Take in a lot of paint. Do that? Use this tip of the brush, dangle out brush. L place it o there. Not taking less pain this time. Again, that's a trick. Let there be some cracks when you're going to paint this snow. There will be some cracks to make it look realistic. Yeah, there we go. Okay. I'll wipe off my brush. Let's come on the other side as well and blend them. Blow them at the bottom. Straightforward technique to blow the bottom. Oh, yeah, this looks good. Let them be a bit solid and over here too. Just a bit. Yeah, there we go. Look at that. Intally we have mountains. So this looks soft, and this looks kind of decently hard, you know, the strokes as well. That's what I'm talking about. Okay. So in the next video, let's go and see how to paint the grass for this little piece of painting. Thank you. 4. Grass Painting: Hi, and we'll come back to the new video. In this video, that's going to see how to paint grass. So on my palette, I have some lime el and some green. Okay? And I'll dip my brush in water. And the brush I'm using for the grass is a normal fan brush, number two fan brush. Let's just go into some lime ellow and some green. Okay? About 50, 50? Yeah, gives you bright little green colour. Let's sort of come right about in here itself and get in those grassy effects. Look at that. This itself is creating a beautiful grass effect. It looks like natural grass. If you're cutting this effect, you're on the right track. That's for sure. You're sort of tapping it. Make sure that the tip of this brush is facing towards the roof. It's at 90 degree and just go and tap it. Simple. Change the color. Don't have the same color everywhere, and this will sort of crear dissipation in the field in the ground. I can just sort of go and scrub this somewhere. Just a bit, not much. But most of it's gonna happen with tapping. I sort of cotter. Okay. I've taken in some more of that green and mel. That sort of come right here. I just sort of place it in beautiful little grassy facts right there instantly, within a few seconds, just by tapping it. Okay? Now I dip my brush in water to get that fluids. Make it more to make the paint flow. Come all the way till here and paint this. Let paint it here real quick. We have to make this look realistic and this is just 50% done. I'm talking about the grass, and this is just 50% done. I'll show you how to make it look even more realistic and I'll show you how to get in a lot of depth. So that the painting looks natural and three dimensional. And now, let's go and paint in something which makes the grass look even more realistic. So I've taken in some black, no water this time, and I've not cleaned the brush. As you can see, there's some green steel left on the brush, and I'll take in very little black. Okay? Let's come right over here at this corner. Okay? You sort of paint in some of these textures. That's the right way to put it. On the top of these textures, these beautiful beautiful little textures. J here and there. Just here and there. Let's come on. Just as well, and sort of place in some more of that. So that the attention goes towards painting actual painting. Yeah, there is a bit not tapping too hard. Go back to that color. Let's sort of gradually decrease pressure as you go towards the highlight area or towards the subject. Something like that. This is adding texture, as well as adding depth to your paintings. Simple taping it. That's it. Don't add water for this, you know, for this part where I'm using black because it will not look good after it dries. Yeah, there we go. Yeah. So in the next video, let's go to see how do we paint trees in the background. Thank you. 5. Background Misty Trees: Hi, and welcome back to a new video. In this video, let's see how to paint in some trees in this area. So for that, I've gone back to my angela brush, and I've taken some green, some black, some limello simply. Most of it's going to be in the green color, come here. I sort of paint in this little piece here. Look at that. It's as if you're tearing the paper, whereas that's the right perspective to put it because if you want to get this effect, you should kind of go hard on the paper. Look at that. I'm going to take in more of this color place it in. This is a watercolor paper which I'm using. I'm painting an acrylic. Tap the brush. Look at that mist. The mist right over there creates an effect in itself. Okay, so let that mist come all the way till here. My we'll take in some more black to add in some more details and depth and textures. These three are very important. Yeah, there we go. And now I dipped this brush. That is a fan brush in water, and let's come over here with that same old color. Let's sort of give the detail rings top of these trees pine trees, usually. Yeah. Look at that. I'm simply liking it. This effect simply beautifies your painting. And you can pretty much translate this into any of your landscape paintings and look very, very natural. So in the next video, let's go and see how to paint the pine tree right hand side in this painting. Thank you. 6. Pine Tree in Foreground: Hi, and welcome back to new video. In this video, let's go ahead and see how to find the pine tree right away here. So, as you can see, this is my cup, bowl of water. And this is my fan brush. I've rinsed this in the bowl with water. And I have the same palette as I had before. So let's go with some black and some green. Yeah. Get that nature color. The aim is to make this brush flat. As you can see Look at that. You have to make the brush flat. Why? Because we need a tree trunk for a pine tree. Coming all the way here. Okay. Cool. So we have a tree trunk. Let's come over here and tap and place in some of these beautiful beautiful little foliage action on this little piece of pine tree. Yeah. I've added this bit of water, but you have to wait for a long time if you add water to dry because when you go out and apply the highlights, you want these highlights to stay like highlights. You don't want them to fade away because these are water based colors, and you might lose that effect. So that's the reason. Sort of greasing this color. And I'm using only black for this. Of course, I added some green as well as you saw. That is sap green. Yeah. With that, I don't do too much. Yeah. There we go. Okay, it's been 10 minutes since I've let this to dry. And I have some limello and green on my palette, and I'm using this modified flat brush. So this brush was initially flat, and it was a flat brush, and I cut these bristles, you know, unevenly, and by usage, it got open. The bristles got opened up. And it's a very good brush to, you know, go and paint foliage. Okay. Let's see some limel and some green. Yeah. Not too much. Most of it's going to be green we already have some bright bright grass there. So just to fight the tree and the grass to fight. So again green. Still, it's not completely dry. That's okay. You can still go and paint the highlights. Okay. Maybe let's start from here. Yeah. Look at that. Beautiful little texture itself. I like it. I thought you can add in some white as well to make it even brighter. Okay, let's go to add in some white. Should add white to that same pile of paint. It come right over here. And it's kind of tap and these beautiful full eactionR here. And do not do this when it's wet. Simply, do not do this when it's wet, simply because it will not give that same effect. I'll get blended with that color underneath, and you might not get the result what you've expected. With that, here and there. Happening? Let's go on the other side as well. Give it some shadows. Yeah. I've taken more thick paint. I'm sort of pleased here, sort of tapping it very lightly and very gently. It's taking a lot of white. As you can see seeing these two mountains, the light is coming from the left. So we're going to paint the left part of a tree with highlights. Yeah. There we go. It's chicken more white. I sort of flas it right over here and there, not too much. Just a snacks and thy lide. Yeah. You got to fret. Go back to that normal color. It sort of flash it right over here, too. Look at that. That's the way we want. Now, I'll take in some black and some green, more of black. And let's come over here on this little piece of tree and add in some more highlights, textures, and detailings. Just by tapping, see? Just by tapping, you can get a lot of effects. Tapping is a very good technique in painting landscapes or I would say in landscape paintings. It's how you manipulate the technique a bit and the brushes and tools you use. Look at that? Sort of tapping it. You look at this junction where there is highlight and there's a dark shadow. We need to bring a transition depth. That's where this tapping method works. And this doing when it's almost dry. Yeah, it's almost dry. We're taking some thick paint of black so that I get it there. Almost a gray color. Look at that? That's it yeah. There we go. So with this, I come to the end of this class. I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope I've added some value to your knowledge. Thank you so much for staying till the end and thanks for watching. Take care.