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Author: Scott_Burkett, Contributing Editor
 | Important: if you are sketching in charcoal, graphite, etc., be sure to take a large brush and vigrously dust that thing down. Smooth out those lines! Don’t worry, you won't lose any detail.
If you don't do this, you could be well on your way to having a muddy, charcoally mess on your hands when you start slapping paint around. Also, if you leave too much charcoal dust on the canvas, it will eventually try to make its way through the paint to the surface. Yikes! |
 | With my fresh sketch on the canvas, I am ready to begin!
I like to create some quick washes of color over the canvas first. While some folks have very scientific approaches to this, (actually turned this into an art form of its own), I like to keep it simple. I dip a large flat into my thinner, and pull a small corner of my cobalt blue down, effectively creating a nice blue wash. |
 | Using this same brush, I quickly block in the sky. Nothing fancy, folks. Heck, at this point, I’m not even really concerned with the clouds.
Why is that? Well, for starters, the majority of the sky in the original image is cloudy. I plan on painting those with a nice thick, impasto mixture. So, I am really just washing down the sky so that those undertones can come through later in spots that I don't cover with opaque paint. |
 | Ok, so I move on and mix up some green for the large silhouetted tree.
I pull in some of my Naples Yellow Hue and mixed it in with my cobalt blue, adding also a bit of my Turpenoid (thinner) to create that wash effect. Note the two separate piles of Titanum White. I always squeeze out two piles, in case one gets contaminated with another color. |
 | Hmm. Something isn’t quite right. I’ve scrubbed in the tree with my bristle brush, but as you can see, it is nowhere near being a good match. The tree I’ve scrubbed in is much lighter in value.
Don’t worry, we can fix it. The sky looks about right, though. :) |
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