Use Negative Painting To Give Shape To Your Trees In Your Landscape Painting

Negative painting allows you to cut into your painting and shape up hard to paint objects like trees.
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[@margaretbutters6181]

that was another great lesson - thankyou

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@LoveToCreatebyTonya]

Hi Phil, Thank you for this video. Have a wonderful weekend. See you again soon.

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks, Tonya

[@lorachristian7030]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@philstarke.artist]

You're welcome

[@ronschlorff7089]

Good one Phil, yes, those Russian painters' examples; their work is good to look at, but not to do. Detail I left long ago when doing acrylic wildlife paintings, fur and feathers, lots of them!! Now I like doing small paintings of landscapes with big brushes, #6 or #8 or even #10 on a 6x8. Sometimes I feel the need to "duck tape" that brush to my hand, cuz there is a tendency, still, to want to reach for that little brush, ..just for finishing touches. Yup, you can "finishing touch" a painting to death, as most folks know!! :D LOL

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks Ron, detail is a killer

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@philstarke.artist like you said, it depends on circumstance, those Russian painters were "painting photographs" long before there were good color photos, that's just fine in my book, ...thin as it is!! LOL ;D

[@richrobertson9457]

Another great lesson, but the photo I have of the Isaac Levitan tree at 16:07 does not look like the version presented here. The colors are much more natural looking. This version looks like it was manipulated somewhere along the way.

[@philstarke.artist]

That is the trouble with the internet, so many different versions of the same painting.