Melbourne

Blending was hard. Very streaky, brushstrokes galore, I had to blend very gently to minimise them. Especially with synthetic brushes. Many hairs and pieces of dirt to pick off with the corner of the brush.

The clouds ended up blobby and smeary cotton balls because the paint was too thin and wet.

Again, the paint was too thin and wet to ‘break’ on the highlights of the mountains and give the desired texture. As you can see I gave up halfway.

I couldn’t get nicely detailed trees or give the highlights on the trees enough definition because it was hard to get the brush dry enough to give thin clumps of bristles with concentrated pigment. I gave up.

There is a reason Bob Ross beats his paintbrushes so viciously. It’s because of the moisture that is so hard to completely get out and will badly mess with your painting.

Wayward drips removed paint from the sky. And as I tried to paint the ground and then to highlight the ground, instead of applying paint the brush removed the paint beneath it. I blobbed brown on to get the dirt down but had to do the same for the highlights because the alternative was the brush taking off everything beneath it.