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Painting my first landscape

5/11/2015

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A friend of mine is currently in Iceland on a writing residence where she made some beautiful pictures of the landscape, most of them way prettier than the one above, but I liked this one because of the depth. I thought it would be nice to give her a painting of this image on her birthday party which was right after she came back. I never painted a lanscape before, because it's not really my style. Here I'd like to show you the process, what I learned from it and if I would ever paint a landscape again. 
I made the painting in my kitchen, where I store my art supplies. It is my tiny art studio. I wrote a blogpost about it. You can find it here. 

The pictures are quite dark, cause it was evening (not very smart of me, but I felt like painting and then I have to make use of it). 
I started sketching the basic lines, but unfortunately didn't make a picture of this. Then I painted the street and the mountains. Everything that had to be darker blue. 
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Here you can see the bad lighting I had while I was painting. I couldnt see the colors very well. 
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But I was lucky enough to have Louis, my cat, as my assistant. 
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I painted the air with a kitchen sponge, to hopefully give it something cloudy. 
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And then it got like, really weird and ugly. 
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So with a bit of yellow I tried to make the blue of the mountains a little bit more greenish.
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I LOVE PICTURES LIKE THIS! 
I started painting the grass and other green and brown areas. 
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This is (part of) the mess I made. 
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And after a while it looked like this. It looks finished, but it's not. This is just the basis. 
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Another one from the front...
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Here I added the white line on the street and the grass. I also made the concrete of the street darker, so it would be more gray-ish instead of blue. Otherwise it would probably look to much like a river or so. 
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With a thick layer of paint I carved in the grass. 
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And this is the final result! With a white spraypaint I added the fog on the mountains. It adds way more depth! 
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Putting them next to eachother, you can see how I totally fucked up the angle. Everything is flatter in the picture than it is in the painting. The painting is very clean and simple, with not that much details. I did this on purpose: I like it to be clean and simple and I didn't have the time (or the patience) to add all those tiny details. 
Surprisingly, I really enjoyed making this painting. It was so relaxing to do! I think I will definitely make a landscape again, especially if I get my hands on a very beautiful picture like this one. 
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