Your project is to draw this calm blue landscape with me! I’ve prepared a little step by step guide of drawing this scene in pdf, which you can download below!

MATERIALS:

Acrylic paints (White, Blue and Black colors.The full names of the color I use in this class are: Titanium White, Phthalo Blue and Lamp Black, but you don’t have to use these exact shades, and can use other colors that you have at home
Synthetic brushes (Flat square ended brush for drawing the sky, a smaller flat brush for drawing mountains and a round pointed brush for drawing pine trees and birds)
Cup with water
Surface for drawing (fell free to choose any surface you want: paper, canvas, wood or something else)
Palette for mixing your colors

Pro tip: We are going to do a lot of colors’ blending in this class and if you find yourself struggling with keeping acrylic paints from drying, you can add a special slow drying medium to them.These mediums can be found in all art stores. And all you have to do is just to add a tiny amount of this medium to the paints on your palette and they will stay wet for a longer time. Using a slow dry medium can be especially helpful if you live in a hot environment or draw outside and your paints dry even quicker than usual.

Hope you have fun drawing this blue landscape! Don’t be afraid of making mistakes, acrylic paints are very opaque and if you don’t like something, you can always just paint over it!

Please feel free to share pictures of your result or work in process in the Class Project section!

Can’t wait to see what you create!

Hayley Stroh

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