Learn How to Paint LIGHTNING OVER MOUNTAIN with Acrylic - Paint & Sip at Home- Step by Step Tutorial

VIDEO DESCRIPTION - This painting tutorial will take you through easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to paint this dramatic exciting stormy landscape image of "LIGHTNING OVER MOUNTAINS" with an energetic mystical feel and realistic look to it. You’ll learn how to paint this country scene with inspirational imagery and electricity emerging from the dark cloud and striking the top of the hills. Learn how to use simple painting techniques for blending the background for added depth and atmospheric dimension. You can personalize the type of trees, type of landscape, or colors, to symbolize your favorite place, time of year, or location. Maybe you paint a winter scene with snow-capped mountains, or a fall scene with autumn leaves on the distant trees, or a summer image with green grass on rolling hills, perhaps you could add stars or a bright moon to the sky. The silhouetted foreground will make the viewer feel like they are perched on top of a cliffside peering down into the stormy valley. You could paint a silhouette of anything in the foreground, a man, woman, child, dog, bench, lamp post, swing, or even a horse! This is a painting inspired by the power of Mother Nature and the energy she possess, so let your creative energy help make this image unique to you! Let the mist and fog in the valleys be soft and tranquil as the rain beats down from the black cloud into the atmosphere while the bolts of lightning cast a vibrant glow and illuminate the sky with it's electricity. You’ll learn how to add a progression of thin layers to create the illusion of the lightning with a scrubbing, or scumbling, technique that will create a 3D effect like a photograph. The painting will come to life with the action of the small volts of light coming out in various directions, similar to tree branches, which will show how the energy travels through the air. The dark moody colors will bring cohesion and harmony, creating a symphony of illuminating glows surrounding the focal point. You’ll learn to paint a realistic looking storm cloud that pops with energy, a glowing sky that has atmospheric dimension and a stunning thunderstorm sky that has realistic colors and dramatic affects. Influenced by the power of nature, it's noises, and it's visual beauty, this painting becomes a symbol and display of the mighty strength of the atmosphere. You'll learn to paint this captivating landscape with depth, contrast and natural colors that will produce an image that is inspirational, beautiful, and jam packed with useful painting tips! Using only 2 brushes and 5 colors we'll create this conversational masterpiece that is sure to compliment any décor. So let's get painting and let's get sipping!

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MATERIALS:
Canvas: 16x20 stretched primed canvas
Brushes: 1/2 inch flat bristle (large), #1 round synthetic (small)
Acrylic Paint: titanium white, mars black, fluorescent pink, violet purple, deep yellow
Other: #2 pencil, palette, cup of water for washing brushes, paper towel for drying brushes

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STEPS:
1. pencil - draw outline of landscape
2. 1/2 inch bristle brush – Paint sky with white, pink, purple and black
3. 1/2 inch bristle brush – Paint distant hills with plum (made is step 1), black and white
4. #1 round and 1/2 inch bristle brush – Paint foreground land with black
5. #1 round and 1/2 inch bristle brush – Paint 2nd layer of sky, the glow, with white, pink and plum
6. 1/2 inch bristle brush – Paint storm cloud with black and white
7. #1 round brush – Paint lightning with white, yellow, pink and plum
8. #1 round brush - Sign with black and white

LINKS AND CONTACT INFO:
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Email: contact@michellethepainter.com

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