to talk about mountains and while there are many colors, you can put in distant mountains.

I am going to make it very simple for you and I do this with a lot of students and they

find it so much easier to have simple recipes. In this case, we are going to take Magenta

which is here and you say "how can that be in a distant mountain?" Well, we use that

and then we come over to the Viridian and we take some of that and put it in and believe

it or not Viridian and Magenta make Purple! You see that? It makes a beautiful beautiful

Purple and a very very subtle Purple at that. Now, if that Purple is too dark, you can add

a little bit of Neutral Gray into it. It makes a very lovely for the mountain and the

deeper purple can also work for the ravines so I am going to come back to this side and

add just a little Gray over here and the other thing is, when I take any color and I make

an initial puddle, I move off to the side. So, if this were considered a 50 cent piece, this

would be considered a penny so I want to be able to take from the original puddle. So,

if I just Gray this out a little bit, that makes a very nice and I can still take some

from the original puddle. Let's try that on our mountain. The other thing I heard

a long time ago was that the Chinese say that "Any mountain in a painting that goes down

off the edge makes a sad painting." So usually I have a mountain going UP off of the edge of the canvas.

Alright, so we are just going to bring this down... We also want to

make sure that we don't have a large mountain right in the center of the canvas because

the point of interest should either be...it is called the "Golden Mean" which should either

be in the first third, or the second third, in the upper quadrant or the lower quadrant

so we are going to just work ourselves along here. Now, do not worry if it is not all the

same color because mountains certainly are not all the same color and we don't want this

one to be. So, I am going to move the second mountain and have it look a little bit different.

There are many things that you can do. You can bring part of the clouds

over the top of the mountains so it makes them very filmy as if it is a misty day or

you can keep the mountains rather clear. Okay, now usually a mountain has a lighter side

and a deeper side so let's work on that for a minute too. Again, I am going to go back

to the Viridian and add a little bit of it to this mixture, over here in the Gray Mixture.

Now, I am going to add some very small trees and they usually don't grow above a certain

mountain line on the mountain so I am going to just make a few in there and very soft

in here and if you will notice, I have I undertoned my canvas in Gray. The reason you do that

is so that in the event that you haven't covered every spot, you don't have a white waffle mark

of a canvas showing through so this just keeps it very subtle. We can add a little

bit like this. Can you see how that is beginning to make it look like very far away mountains?

You can add your little trees. I am going to put a little bit of Sap Green in there.

Usually at the base of the mountains before you go into your next area, it gets a

darker because usually the next area right in front of the mountains is lighter. We will

cover that in the video called "A Distant Pasture." Alright, I am going to add a little

bit of lightness and I am going to take some Yellow Ochre along with this Purple just to lighten

it a little bit and a little bit of White and I am going to come up just one side of

the mountain. The sun is hitting one side. Another thing is, if you have it sunny on

one side, it is pretty amazing but the sun likes the poke it's head through every time

there is a lower crevice so if I make this just a wee bit lighter it is very becoming.

It gives a feeling that there is light behind the mountain. I am going to add a little bit

of a lighter color and usually when you add a little Naples Yellow, a lighter yellow with

white mixed into your Purple mixture it will give you some sun. If you check our next video,

it will show how we continue this painting. We are going to put distant trees and

then we will also put a distant pasture. Alright? Thank you for joining me today and see you

again soon!