Simplifying A Winter Lake with Tracey Maras | Pastel Academy

A written guide on avoiding the trap of trying to include everything from a reference photo.

Course Content

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Introduction

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Reference Photo

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Materials

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 1: Design & Composition

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 2: Preparing the Painting Surface and Sketch

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 3: Underpainting

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 4: Working from the farthest distance

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 5: Blocking in the trees

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 6: Building the rocks

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 7: Returning to the water

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 8: Building the foreground boulders

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 9: Softening the water ripples and moving the foreground water

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 10: Time to assess

Simplifying A Winter Lake – Stage 11: Final Assessment and Highlights