Environments Designs

Environment Designs

For my first environment designs, I really wanted to focus on the trees and the snow. Having never drawn snow before, I did alot of research and watching tutorials to understand how painters in particular paint snow. These paintings were made with acrylic paint, and are heavily based off of tutorials and reference photos I found online. Whilst I do wish I had done more original ideas, I feel I tweaked these enough to be happy to sell them as my own. 

The process for both of these paintings were very similiar, slow and full of doubt. However, after a bit of a guessing game and some YouTube help I feel they've come out really nicely. I love how vibrant they both feel, and how the snow almost glistens on both images. I would love to develop this further in the future and add a deeper variety of colour into the palettes for both, as to add more depth and excitement to the paintings.

One thing I found particularly interesting throughout this painting was the beginning, when the painters would cover their canvases in a light wash of orange paint as a base. Whilst I'm not entirely sure why this is the case, I believe the constrast from orange to blue really compliments each other (the colour wheel), and so makes the blue stand out. When researching into artists for some help on how to do this, I found inspiration from artists like Bob Ross, a famous environments painter who does a similar process.