How to Paint Fog or Mist in Watercolor: Techniques & Tips with Angela Fehr
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Let's de"mist"ify watercolor! In this free watercolor lesson I will show you how to paint fog or mist without using masking fluid or white gouache. You can create beautiful soft effects with a little bit of planning and a light touch. You don't even need a pencil sketch to start!
If you've been using masking fluid to save the white of the paper, you already know that masking fluid can be difficult to work with. It creates a hard edge that doesn't give the soft, diffused look we need for painting fog. Adding white paint or gouache is equally problematic, as painting white over watercolor gives a chalky look, and rarely matches the white of the paper, so it doesn't really feel transparent and light.
By working wet-on-dry, you can block in the major elements of the painting, leaving the light areas light, and using water to soften edges for a wet in wet look that maintains some control.
I'm using a fairly narrow range of colors, two or three blues (choose a warm blue like ultramarine and a cooler blue like cinereous blue), a couple of violets (you can mix your own but I like wisteria, cobalt violet deep and carbazole violet from Daniel Smith), and for warmth, a splash of Mars Yellow (substitute raw sienna) and Hematite Burnt Scarlet (substitute burnt umber).
You also don't need a perfect reference photo. By using a reference photo as my jumping off point, I was able to improvise and edit the scene to create a more pleasing composition. Using my knowledge from scenes I have painted in the past, I was able to add mountains emerging from the clouds to make my painting more interesting.
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like this one Angela I hate using masking fluid . thank you for the Friday videos les
Oh I just love your misty technique. By not using my masking fluid or white, if it produces even something a little like yours, it will be an improvement in my attempts at misty seascapes and landscapes . Thank you so much.
Wonderful teaching with great emphasis on skills and techniques! Thank you Angela!
Fantastic tutorial, Angela! The colours chosen, and technique described to create convincing 'fog' worked so well. THANK you.
This is so beautiful! Love the colors and the composition. Thank you Angela, looking forward to trying out what you've taught us this weekend.
You'approached with a great mastery to reproduce the fog. Thank you to show your strokes and technique! I enjoyed this video.
Got myself the Escoda Versatil 10 rigger. Wow that paints different. I love it for loose working. Bring it on Angela 😘
I love how you are able to go with the flow with mistakes...watercolor has good lessons for life as well
Thank you so much, you are a fabulous teacher. Can't wait to try fog and I hope to see more of your videos.
Great tips, Amgela. The mountains definitely work and your fog/mist tips are very helpful.
Great tutorial! I love the softness of the mist. Thanks for sharing!
Love this - thanks Angela. Living in the misty Blue Ridge Mountains I needed this lesson.
Great Video. You make it look so not intimidating. Your colors are soft and inviting. Thank you for all the wonderful videos you give us sharing your knowledge and passion. Its so appreciated
It is great Angela. I love it. All the smoothness of the fog over the mountain. You are great professor. Thanks !
I love the feeling of the mist and look forward to trying it myself. Thank you
Great tutorial. Thank you, Angela for sharing your talent.
Great instruction! It really makes sense the way you say it!
Thank you for another great lesson for free! You are the best teacher!
Thanks so much for your simple explanation of fog. It took the mystery out of it. :}
I love that you can get those results from those crazy long brushes! So cool.... you’re the best. 👌🏼
Thank you for taking a step-by-step approach to this painting. I am going to try it, step-by-step (turning your video off and on), to see if I can duplicate it. Looking forward to the beginner's class, later in the week. Thank you, in advance!
wunderschön, vielen dank angela.i will be in your beginners classe and i hope to be able to paint like i realy want to.
Thanks for the fog/mist demo. I see that all the time in the Olympic Mts where I live and often wonder how to make it happen on paper. This really helped
Angela, this is wonderful! I love the softness of it. I've not painted in trying to capture fog since I took the Atmospherics Landscape course with Birgit O'Connor. She also helped us create a vast amount of fog with one swipe between the water and land. Powerful and gorgeous! Thanks for a great lesson!
A great tutorial! Thanks for sharing.
This is so lovely!
This a wonderfully useful video! Many thanks. Agnès (from France)
Lovely...I like the technique!
How fortuitious! My work in process is my first attempt at painting fog. I put some pearlescent stuff over the paper white area in an effort to create sparkle in fog over water.
Angela, I would dearly love to see you paint a dark fog bank.
your such a good teacher. I was looking for other paintings teaching this but they are either so simple or so complex that I lose interest or it doesn't apply to my situation. This gives me the exact technique I need. Although I have to paint cactus in front of my mist and mountains and I think I will have to mask the main clump of them
Great video and easy to follow along. I get my Indigo paper on monday so I'm eager to try it:)
This is very beautiful. It is gentle and soft. Thank you for sharing. One of my issues is overworking pieces of a painting. This happens when I am not pleased with the result in a particular area. I guess it is a practice issue. Thank you again for sharing your work. It does take a lot of planning.
Thank Angela. All the above is true. I may add that for me perfection is also an issue. Practice and lowering expectations may help I guess.
Oh, wonderful! I have tried so hard to do fog. I will keep using this technique and will improve I am sure. Right now I am also trying to do animals, especially the big cats. Talk about difficult to get the colors right! I really need more practice in mixing colors. TFS
Oh Angela .....magical! I love how you started with one photo & then went on an adventure & changed your painting. I am learning so much by watching your videos. Thank you painting mist/fog was one of my ? I wasn’t sure how to proceed. Painting beaches with sand & water? Please help❣️
This will really help me! I have an assigment from my art school and I had no idea hiw to do this!
I'm going to try to paint this as you paint it, except I think I'm not going to put the yellowish at the bottom. If I do I'm going to lighten it up a lot more so it's not so dominant in the picture. I think the way you do the mist or cloud's is a brilliant way of doing this! You make it look so easy. Thank you so much for sharing 😊! Happy painting!😎.
Loved the video, have been wondering how to make mist. Have a photo of horses in the mist and wonder how this would be accomplished.
Angela l have learned a lot from you thank you
Thanks!! Just placed a Cheap Joes order, gave my Scroggy to a friend (found other irresistible goodies, too).
Beautiful. I love the result - a foggy mountain mist. I can understand including misty foggy mountains because they're interesting but is painting a scene during a rainstorm complicated?
Angela, What a beautiful painting. I love this effect. The paper looks so smooth as if it is hot press, but I don't think I've ever heard you say you use it. I have some hot press that I bought by accident; I tried to use it but my watercolors didn't move. Is there any way to use it successfully or should I give it away to a pen and ink artist?
This Video is amazing, I was wondering what type of bush you're using the Hairs appear to be over an inch long? Thank you for sharing your knowledge of watercolor.
Very interesting
Great video! I have a question.... you united the paint with the blues , but when you added the yellow land/weeds that color doesn’t appear anywhere else. Is the painting still “harmonious “?
Thanks....
A lefty...that helps me a lot. What kind of brush is that? I like the long bristles.
I never noticed that before. I’m a lefty too.
click on the arrow under the video and you'll find Angelas supply list to find the brush
What do you use to tape your paper down?
Was this painted on dry paper ?
Angela..thank you for a lovely tutorial...it was really nice...must say though, that I am not liking your new way of showing stuff...with red arrows to subscribe and ...big wordy pop-ups...sorry you went that route, because I am less likely to watch your videos now...Janis
kookatsoonjan when someone is providing free videos for you to watch, you really should not criticize her or she might just decide it’s not worth it due to all the buttholes who don’t appreciate her efforts. Then all the people who are thankful and appreciate the fact that a wonderfully talented artist is sharing her talent and advice for FREE, won’t get to watch her anymore. That would be a loss way worse than whatever gripe you have with her promoting her awesome channel.
Just sayin....