Article · Chuck Black Art
Painting Grass and Foliage: Techniques for Capturing Foreground Detail in Your Paintings
By Chuck Black
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
About this lesson
A four-stage demo of foreground grass and foliage: block in the mass with a wide brush in the overall light and colour, then build blade and twig texture with a loaded dagger brush. Stresses getting the general lighting right rather than rendering every blade.
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