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Canyon River (Patreon)

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2020-08-03 12:25:24
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2026-06
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In this tutorial I walk you through painting this subject of a canyon river that most would find overwhelming. There are so many little details and color shifts but I show you how I take it one shape at a time and suggest detail instead of trying to paint everything I see.  

I attached the reference photo and a version of it with a photoshop filter that might help you see the big shapes in the beginning of the painting.  

Color: Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Lemon, and Titanium White. Medium: None. Just paint thinner.  

Surface: Acrylic primed linen panel (9x12 inch)

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Canyon River

In this tutorial I walk you through painting this subject of a canyon river that most would find overwhelming. There are so many little details and color shifts but I show you how I take it one shape at a time and suggest detail instead of trying to paint everything I see. Color: Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Lemon, and Titanium White. Medium: None. Just paint thinner. Surface: Acrylic primed linen panel (9x12 inch)

Comments

E. K. Brautigam

What photoshop filter did you apply to achieve that photo look?

Hilary Price

Do you wait until the very end to clean your brushes or do you clean as you go?

Chris Fornataro
>>42432523

I am constantly dipping my brush in paint thinner and wiping it on paper towels. Paper towels are the unsung hero of oil painting. LOL

Maria Dios

Chris, please give a talk and demonstration on brush strokes. I cannot do mine like yours, the don't come out the same shape and I need to understand what I'm doing. Also about how much paint you put on the brush etc. Thanks!

Maria Dios

I used to use acrylics and then started using water based oils. Now i find as I use them, I don't clean the brush in the water hardly, just wipe it with a rag and then keep going. This is what you are doing? I have a whole colleciton of water based oils so will still use them but am suspecting that your full oils go farther, or have more substance on the brush. Am I right?

Demaree Wilson

My brush strokes are really scratchy. I thought it was my brushes but I bought new ones and learned it's just me. I tried to add more paint to make them smoother but that just overloaded my brushes. This seems so basic but it's really making me frustrated.

Debbie Wilkes

Hi Chris, It seems that you do not do preliminary drawings to plan out where things are going and where focal point is - you seem to just start drawing things in right on the canvas. Is that correct? I am not as good at gauging where things go so I typically plan everything out and then go to canvas - I'm also nowhere close to as good at drawing as you. But I am trying to simplify my process and am wondering if I'm making it too complicated. What are your thoughts on preliminary drawings and preplanning before tackling the actual painting. Thanks.

Esperanza Gaffo
>>50891273

Watch the siesta key beach and the other beach landscape starting oldest to newest l think there he explain how get the key points set on canvas.