Article · Jackie Partridge Art
How to Paint a River
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2023
About this lesson
A five-step palette-knife river landscape: a graded sky across the top third, riverbanks in varied greens and earth tones, then blue-green water that picks up sky and bank colors as reflections. Thin washes go down first, then textured knife work on top.
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