Many people struggle to create realistic landscapes. In today’s video clip, Bill Alexander shows you how to place and move the color to create reflections in a lake so you can know how to do it too!

Key Points To Consider:

• Bill always begins with a thin coat of Magic White.
• He uses thick, firm paint.
• He mixes the lake color on the canvas before he goes to the canvas.
• While applying the dark base, he uses very little paint and holds his brush straight into the canvas, and then pulls downward.
• He uses heavy pressure to push the paint deep into the canvas.
• He adjusts the color when needed.
• His highlight colors are placed on top of the thin base color.
• He matches the colors with the colors of the trees above.
• Bill matches the shapes of the tree masses.
• He places all of the colors on the lake before he blends.
• The clean, dry, Blending Brush is held flat against the canvas with very little pressure.
• He pulls straight down to smear the paint. Again, no pressure on the brush. This creates a dragging effect.
• Bill turns the brush over because he picked up paint from the canvas. This ensures the colors stay pure.
• He cleans and drys his brush often.
• After the vertical strokes, he creates the horizontal strokes.

Happy Painting!

Laurie and Dawn

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