Hazy Landscape Walk-Through

Hazy Landscape Walk-Through

Here is a walkthrough of how I made the hazy landscape painting shown below. I hope it proves to be helpful for someone! Click any of the thumbnail images for a larger view. NOTE: The image is ? Katherine Dinger. I post the walkthroughs for general reference to give other people a glimpse into how I work, they are NOT here for you to copy! Thank you.

　

Step 1 - Splotched in areas of color with a soft brush to determine placement.

　

　
　

　
Step 2 - Went in with a hard edged brush to add details. Basically I just swish-swish-swished a

bunch of various green lines over eachother.
　

　

　

Step 3 - Moved onto the middleground area to add detail. Keeping the colors fairly flat and hazy.

　

　

　

Step 5 - With a fairly thick brush I lay out the general shape of the tree line.

Working from left-to-right I start adding in vague details/cleaning up the shapes.

　

　

　

Step 6 - Working my way down the treeline.

　

　　

　

Step 7 - This shot shows a little better how I cleaned up the shapes before adding in the highlights and shadows.

　

　

　

Step 8 - Almost there!

　

　

　

Step 9 - Paint in the tree. The leaves are basically a bunch of overlapping speckly brushes in various colors.

　

　

　

Finished - Thickened the haze, reduced the saturation a tad and tweaked the reflections some more.

　

　

　

And for fun here's the tweaked sepia style version I did.

　

　

Isao Sasaki - Landscape (New Age)