How Do You Paint A Winter Scene With Oil Paints?
Winter scenes have been the subject of countless oil paintings through the centuries. The challenge of capturing the serenity often found in a winter scene is a challenge that makes this subject so popular. Even if you’re new to oil painting and your artistic skills are limited, you can create a winter scene in oil paints using just a few colors and simple brush strokes. Mix white and gray oil paints together on your canvas. Keep the ratio of gray to white slim. You’re adding the gray to help lift the white away from the canvas and remove the starkness. Keeping the overall white color is important. Apply the background of the image first. Paint the white/gray mixture onto the canvas with wide, sweeping strokes of the brush to create the snowy ground and drifts. Move your brush across the canvas from left to right, creating arcs and overlapping them until you have the ground complete. Add dark blue to some of the white and gray paint to create an effective wintry tone for the sky. Don’t
