A winter gift can never be better than a painting of a snowy landscape. With not many days left until Christmas and New Year, it is the right time to start practicing and painting a lovely winter snow scene for someone special.
When captured in a painting, a snowy fairytale landscape is a treat for the eyes and can carve remarkable moments and memories when presented as a gift.
Snow can seem to be a tricky thing to paint. Capturing its soft and peaceful look can be perfected with acrylic paints and adopting a minimalist approach of “less is more.” With the use of very few elements and a limited palette, you can perfectly reflect the colours of winter.
Tips for painting a perfect snowy scene with acrylics
Portraying wintry landscapes with trees and natural elements creates a beautiful setting and makes an ideal composition for a study.
I suggest buying an online canvas sheet for painting with acrylic and applying a first base coat with a mixture of white and blue to get an ideal foundation to start planning our composition. Then, when satisfied with your execution plan, you can move to a quality canvas and create your masterpiece.
Use a freehand form from the base to create a hill shape with white acrylic paint.
Add definition and details to the hills by using grey highlights along the edges and blending the same towards the base.
You can add a layer of white if the grays become too prominent to capture the right tones of snow.
Allow these layers to dry completely before adding subject details over the same.
Using brown acrylic paint in the center of the painting (or as desired), draw a tree trunk shape along with the branches. Remember to taper the form towards the top.
Follow the process by drawing tree trunks on the hills, this time slightly smaller to create a sense of depth.
Use a brown colour dab along the sprouting branches of the tree shapes. Repeat the process for each tree shape created.
Create a secondary layer on the brown using green colour, and remember to work your way from the top towards the bottom. After adding green to the big tree in the center, dab some green on the small trees over the brown branches.
To create an effect of snow, use titanium white to dab over the top of the green areas, starting from top to bottom on all the tree branches.
For creating a wintry sky, use the “scumbling” technique, which involves back-and-forth motion with the addition of paint across the surface. Add definition to the same with a light gray tone and perfectly blend with the layers below.
Congratulations! You have learned how to paint a simple wintry snow scene. Keep practicing the same, and then create paintings for sharing with your friends and family as a Christmas and New Year present or postcards.
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