In this Oil Painting Landscape Demo, Jon Houglum shows how to paint a beautiful lily pond scene in two videos. He covers everything from basic sketching to advanced color mixing and brush techniques, making it perfect for artists wanting to improve their skills.
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Landscape Tutorial for Beginners Part 1
The video “Painting a Lily Pond by Jon Houglum Video #1” offers a detailed Oil Painting Landscape Demo for artists aiming to refine their skills in painting natural landscapes, focusing on water scenes and vegetation. Jon Houglum walks viewers through the sketches from the beginning to the details of water reflections, foliage, and lily pads. The tutorial teaches essential painting techniques such as effective color mixing, creating depth with shading, and applying textures to accurately represent water and plant life.
From the background, including the sky and mountains, Houglum progresses to mid-ground elements like trees and finally to the detailed foreground featuring water reflections and lily pads. This structured approach is vital for a lifelike portrayal of a lily pond.
This tutorial delivers step-by-step instructions that equip viewers with the tools to tackle landscape painting projects more skillfully and confidently.
Landscape Tutorial for Beginners Part 2
In “Painting a Lily Pond by Jon Houglum Video #2,” Jon discusses preparing your workspace by cleaning the palette to ensure vibrant, uncontaminated colors for the lilies. He selects a smaller, worn brush, ideal for the intricate details of lily flowers. Jon paints a white water lily, noting the subtle yellow center and hints of pink and purple for realistic shadows and depth.
Jon mixes white, burnt sienna, blue, and a dash of cool red for natural grey, applying this to the lily’s underside for shadow. He brings the scene to life by adding various lilies—white with slight orange tinges to mimic sunlight, red for contrast, and yellow for vibrancy—each with their reflections in the water, enhancing the painting’s realism.
Jon further enriches the scene purple flowers using white, phthalo red rose, and blue. He demonstrates the placement of darker shades first, followed by lighter ones for dimension. Jon provides clear instructions on brush handling, color mixing, and placement of elements to construct an insteresting and realistic lily pond scene. His direct approach helps viewers understand the process of layering colors, creating texture, and adjusting tones for a lifelike result.
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