I paint this on the left-hand side of the tree and then use the same colour to paint the shadow tone under the tree
How to Paint Snow with Acrylics – Winter Landscape Painting Tutorials
Learn how to paint snow with acrylics and create beautiful and peaceful winter landscape scenes with the following step by step tutorials by experienced artists. Enjoy!
Acrylic Landscape Painting Lesson – Winter Landscape by JM Lisondra
Learn how to paint snow landscape with a distant barn, road and trees. In this tutorial you can also learn on how to paint winter snowy road and everything is white snow. This is a step by step instructional full painting lesson for beginners and advance artists. Please hit like, add some comments and subscribe for more videos.
How to Paint Snow – Simple 2 Part Acrylic Snowscape Tutorial
How to Paint Snow – Simple 2 Part Acrylic Snowscape Tutorial
By willkempartschool
Snow. It can seem a tricky subject to capture. Is it white? Is it blue? How do you paint it to look soft, or darken it without it looking dull? Having a ‘less is more’ approach to your palette can reflect the colours of Winter absolutely perfectly – without getting complicated. This step-by-step painting tutorial by Artist Will Kemp shows you how to create an impressionist snowscene with Acrylics and develop your landscape painting techniques.
Simple Acrylic Christmas Tree Painting
Simple Acrylic Christmas Tree Painting
By KevinOilPainting
Watch this acrylic painting featuring a simple yet beautiful Christmas tree. Learn to paint landscape with step by step instruction. Don’t miss our free lesson: 5 things you must know before your next painting. Visit our site for instructions on how to watch! http://paintwithkevin.com/index.html With just a bit of practice you can be happy with your trees, ocean waves, clouds and entire oil painting! For full video and DVD painting tutorial lessons and to order Kevin’s signature art brushes visit our site. Visit the artist’s youtube channel here.
Observing the light quality of the sky
Successful landscape painting in any season requires observation of the light.
Is it strong and bright or soft and diffused?
Different light will alter the colour saturation, shadows and mood of a scene, so assessing the lighting qualities of the sky is important to guide your choice of pigments and brushstrokes.
So what are you looking for in your subject?
- What Season is it?
- How high or low is the sun in the sky?
- What time of day is it?
- Is there cloud cover or a clear blue sky?
- Is there fog or mist creating a haze?
A step-by-step Winter Landscape Painting in Acrylic
Video Tutorial – Part 1
Video Tutorial – Part 2
In our Winter scene above, the main light coming from the sky is diffused behind thick clouds with a low-level glow of the sun peaking through, giving us a compressed tonal range, muted colours and shadows on the ground or in the snow that are soft, with diffused blended edges.
The softer the light source, the softer the edges, these are all key elements that make a Winter scene appear magical.
- Dull and soft light – muted colours, narrow or compressed tonal range, less contrast.
- Bright and hard light – saturated colours, wider tonal range, more contrast usually Summer which has a wide tonal range with high saturation.
Tonal value & range in a winter scene
When I’m painting landscapes, I’m essentially looking for ranges of light and dark and assessing the values in the scene by eye.
The easiest way to see this when you’re first starting is to turn your image into black and white.
This creates what can be called a ‘tonal map’, ‘value map’ or ‘tonal range’ but the main thing to remember is how wide or compressed that range is, as it will influence how light or how dark you can go with your pigments.
Tones of black and white appear on a ‘tonal value scale’ that goes from light to dark
In our reference image above, you can see how close in value the sky is to the value of the snow.
It can be misleading to our perceptions because when you think of snow, you usually think of white and apart from the very darkest areas on the left of the image, the majority of the tones are within 2 -3 value steps.
So we have a compressed value range in the least saturated season.
I’ll be using a very limited palette to produce beautiful pastel colours and mixing colour strings for subtle shifts in tone for the painting.
Using a limited palette & colour strings
So for this study, we’ll begin with a warm and cool palette from the blue and orange family, alongside pre-mixed grey neutrals.
I wanted to keep this tutorial simple and impressionistic, working within the discipline of Burnt umber and Ultramarine blue to capture the essence of the scene.
If you get into the practice of pre-mixing colour (or tonal) strings and then only use those colours, it will give you a much more compelling picture. Now you have to realise that this will all come together when the picture is complete – the urge to add darker or lighter paint to the compressed range or brighter saturated new colours to the mix will be hard to resist!
