Misty Moutains

 

In this painting, we had to use three colors that were next to each other on the color wheel. I chose cooler colors and placed the warmest color, yellow, at the front to give the mountains the appearance of distance. I had a really hard time with the mountains; I either put too much detail in and the mountains looked patchy or I didn't put enough details in and the mountains looked like clouds. Instead of trying to use both highlighted areas and shadows, I just focused on the shadowed areas and was happy with the results. I used a dry brush to smudge the bottom of the mountains, giving it the appearance of fog. After everything was done, I dropped a brush right in the middle of the fog. It took so long trying to figure out how to create the affect that I didn't want to ruin the whole thing so I left the smudge there. yay.