Painting a Mountain Landscape - Part 3 - Painting The Final Details

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This is Part 3, the final stage of 'Painting a Mountain Landscape', where I show you how I painted this oil painting of Mt Talbot and Mt Crosscut in New Zealand. 

In this blog post I show you how I add the final details to the painting following all the work building up the detail and refining the image as discussed in the previous blog post.

Check out the other two blog posts I uploaded which shows the sketching, designing and blocking in phase of the painting and the stage that involves building up the details and refining the image.

https://steemit.com/art/@samuel-earp-art/painting-a-mountain-landscape-part-1-sketching-and-blocking-in

https://steemit.com/art/@samuel-earp-art/painting-a-mountain-landscape-part-2-building-up-the-detail-and-refining-the-painting

At this stage of the painting I am now starting to introduce my highlights and lightest tones to the foreground which includes the water, the grass and foliage and the mountains. Saving my lightest tones until the end of the painting will make it really come alive.

Here I am adding in fine detail, the reflections in the water, the illuminated foliage of the bushes behind the water and the strong reflected sunlight in the individual leaves on the grasses.

I mix the colour of these bright highlights using mainly cadmium yellow and titanium white.

Here I am getting into the final stages of the painting, adding in fine details such as the rock in the water and the twigs in the bushes behind the stream. 

I make some refinements to the reflections in the water keeping in  mind that it reflects the sky so I want to use similar colours.

The last part of the painting is where I add the last of my highlights and my lightest tones. I paint some areas of almost pure white in the snow on the top of Mt Crosscut as well as on the highlighted side of the mountains face and I add more highlights to the grasses in the foreground.

I add sparkles in the water with pure titanium white to make it look like it is glistening in the sun. I apply this with a small synthetic round brush.

When considering tonality of your painting, always save your lightest tones until the end of the painting as this is what will make it come to life.

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