Learn How To Paint Landscapes In This Bob Ross Style Tutorial!

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5. Start filling in your work, beginning with the most neutral tones. It’s very easy to add more color, but harder to mute it once added. Thus, to get the best effect with oils, add several thin layers of lightly saturated paint. For the rocks in this work, we use a light beige, almost gray. Again, no need to be very precise at this point.

6. Now add more color to the work, filling in yellow and green where appropriate. We will add in details later, so keep using your large and medium brushes.

7. Start to add shapes such as trees and treelines, using your outline as a guide.

8. Keep fleshing out, adding color, and adding neutral tones until your work is almost completely covered in paint. Be energetic and erratic and have fun here! Everything will be balanced out later, so this is your chance to give your piece interesting qualities. Bring red into the trees and rocks somewhat, bring dark shadows into the clouds, and bring some depth to the mountains.

9. Let your piece completely dry, then complete the sky. Don’t be worried if you paint over your trees or tree lines here, since we will be painting over the sky later. We paint the sky first because it is the backdrop to our work. If we painted it last, we’d be stuck trying to outline our beautifully finished trees, and that would not be fun.

**Pro Tip: Towards the horizon, there is more white and gray in the sky, and the blue has more French Ultramarine in it. While the sky directly above has more Cerulian and Prussian Blue in it. This makes the sky faded at the horizon and brightly saturated directly above. The clouds directly above are more poofy and round and become flat as they become more distant until many look just like horizontal streaks across the sky. Playing with these sizes and textures will give your sky lots of depth.

10. Let your sky completely dry, then begin to complete the land, starting with the farthest point. For this piece, the farthest point is row of mountains in the distance. We create the layers of mountains with progressively darker shades of blue and green. Again, the farthest mountain range is the lightest, with the closest range as the darkest.

11. Work texture into your nearest range, as this is where we begin to notice shapes like trees – even if they are barely perceptible. You can do this easily by angling your brush upwards, and pushing up slightly – the bristles of your brush should create a nice randomized tree-like texture. For this step you will want to use your fine brushes.

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