Oil Workshop 135I recorded the complete process of my waterfall work,
so that you too can learn how to paint stunning, light
fi lled waterfalls in Mastering Waterfalls! The complete
course for Oils or Acrylics, Beginner to Advanced.
I’ve arranged this comprehensive course into
easily learnable chunks, with each chapter building
on the skills learned in the previous chapter. A
literal stairway to success, complete with handrails
Here are some of the things I’ll show you:
- How to invent and design a waterfall
scene from scratch. - How to mix colours.
- How to build a colour scheme that
suits you and your subject.- How to avoid being overwhelmed,
by sticking to a simple system. - The power and excitement of using a big brush to
make your painting much looser than normal. - How to add more drama to your painting
with dark and light accents. - How to critique your own painting to ensure that you
improve in leaps and bounds rather than baby steps
- How to avoid being overwhelmed,
I’ve put everything I’ve learned about painting
beautiful waterfalls into this course with easy
step by step instructions. If you think you’d love
painting waterfalls, now’s your chance.
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Barbara Haviland, Canyon Waterfall
Reference photo
Lovely painterly work Barbara. I like that you’ve kept
your brushwork bold and focused on the big shapes,
but contrasted that with some nice fi ne detail in the
lower trees. Your composition is nicely done, excluding
everything that’s surplus to requirements.
I would have liked to see a stronger light and
atmospheric eff ect in the sunlit area beyond the top of
the falls. All you need to do to achieve that is make all
the darks a little lighter and add a little of the colour of
the light to every colour in that area. The easiest way to
achieve that is to apply a light glaze over that area, maybe
two. It can look a little chalky using glaze with white in it
so I usually try to achieve the same eff ect by adjusting each
colour as I go. Tricky, but well worth a try.
Notice in the resource photo that the mist rising from
the bottom of the falls lightly obscures and simplifi es
the background behind the foreground trees. It’s a great
method to create depth and enhance foreground objects.
Again, you can achieve that with glazing or pre-planning.