I love days like this, fresh and bright. Wrapped up nice and warm with only your face showing and the crunch of frosty earth under foot as you walk. I imagine a roaring fire and a hot mug of tea waiting for you when you return home.

This frosty landscape is an interesting one! The colours make it a little more challenging than your regular landscape with lots more shades of blue needed. As always, my attention was on creating small brush strokes to achieve the required level of details in the reference photo. I enjoyed it. I think you will too.

Happy painting,

Michael

Difficulty: Advanced
Panel Size: 12 x 12 inches
Brushes used in this lesson: Michael James Smith Professional Brush Set

In August 2019 Michael switched brush manufacturers and as a result the series numbers/names are different in some of the lessons. In order to be able to complete the lessons regardless of which set you’re using we have put together a chart which lists the equivalent brushes from both sets.

Acrylic Paints:
Titanium White
Ivory Black
Cerulean Blue
Dioxazine Purple
Burnt Umber
Lemon Yellow
Sap Green
Cadmium Orange

Oil Paints:
Titanium White
Burnt Umber
French Ultramarine
Ivory Black
Winsor Lemon
Cadmium Orange
Cerulean Blue Hue
Dioxazine Purple
Sap Green
Cadmium Yellow
Pthalo Green (Yellow Shade)
Prussian Blue

Mediums / Thinners:
White Spirit