#so I just painted over my pencil sketch and a photo I took out hiking a whole back

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sunny days ❁

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My Travel Paintings - Crater Lake National Park Mount Shasta by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: Cascade Volcanoes. An image capture I took a few years back on a trip to Crater Lake National Park. It was on an October afternoon while driving along Rim Drive after enjoying a few hikes and scenic views. This location was at a pulloff where a sign exhibit noted that one could see for miles and miles, even to Mount Shasta about 130 miles distant (according to Google Maps, at least). That peak is barely visible in the image I captured that day, but I could still zoom in to see it! So that's the story of this image with the view across Oregon and then into California. I posted the image here on Flickr: (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/9071547681/in/album-72...). And now some information on the digital painting I did with my iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil with Adobe Sketch...my focus was using broader stokes with one of my two favorite of Kyle's brushes: Rakes - Zen Grind and Paintbox - French Sharp Block. The latter for an impressionist style that allowed me to include a mixture of colors with each stroke. That was something I'd seen watching and learning from a friend and painter. The rack brush I used with trees, which gave me a lot of practice given the hillside after hillside I had at that overlook in Crater Lake National Park. My process was to break down the hillsides into sections and change the hue and tones and give the appearance of distance and terrain relief. Then it was a methodical process of slowly painting that out. When it came to the skies, I wanted to try out something I'd read (www.creativebloq.com/advice/5-simple-tips-for-painting-be...). Sometimes easier said (or typed) then done. So I went back to a master (Bob Ross) and watched his video where he discussed painting skies by using crossing over of brush strokes (www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7K7h6iyPw8) and then mixing tones and even hues to create a look. This is what a favorite painter and friend has mentioned to me a few years ago. Clouds are still a learning point for me. This painter (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQt9r9uDe6I) helped me better process mentally what I needed to do; it’s a work in progress, but I like what I created a lot better now than in past paintings. I went about looking at some images I'd captured and others I'd just randomly seen on the Internet with clouds. I found one that I'd captured after finishing a workout at a local Austin Gold's Gym and then painted that out more free style with a Kyle acrylic type brush and let my arm and hand work as a single unit to brush it out what I wanted, alternating tones from a more pure white to darker ones. In the left center foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring the Oregon Cascades :-)

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My Travel Paintings - Crater Lake National Park Mount Shasta by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: Cascade Volcanoes. An image capture I took a few years back on a trip to Crater Lake National Park. It was on an October afternoon while driving along Rim Drive after enjoying a few hikes and scenic views. This location was at a pulloff where a sign exhibit noted that one could see for miles and miles, even to Mount Shasta about 130 miles distant (according to Google Maps, at least). That peak is barely visible in the image I captured that day, but I could still zoom in to see it! So that's the story of this image with the view across Oregon and then into California. I posted the image here on Flickr: (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/9071547681/in/album-72...). And now some information on the digital painting I did with my iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil with Adobe Sketch...my focus was using broader stokes with one of my two favorite of Kyle's brushes: Rakes - Zen Grind and Paintbox - French Sharp Block. The latter for an impressionist style that allowed me to include a mixture of colors with each stroke. That was something I'd seen watching and learning from a friend and painter. The rack brush I used with trees, which gave me a lot of practice given the hillside after hillside I had at that overlook in Crater Lake National Park. My process was to break down the hillsides into sections and change the hue and tones and give the appearance of distance and terrain relief. Then it was a methodical process of slowly painting that out. When it came to the skies, I wanted to try out something I'd read (www.creativebloq.com/advice/5-simple-tips-for-painting-be...). Sometimes easier said (or typed) then done. So I went back to a master (Bob Ross) and watched his video where he discussed painting skies by using crossing over of brush strokes (www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7K7h6iyPw8) and then mixing tones and even hues to create a look. This is what a favorite painter and friend has mentioned to me a few years ago. Clouds are still a learning point for me. This painter (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQt9r9uDe6I) helped me better process mentally what I needed to do; it’s a work in progress, but I like what I created a lot better now than in past paintings. I went about looking at some images I'd captured and others I'd just randomly seen on the Internet with clouds. I found one that I'd captured after finishing a workout at a local Austin Gold's Gym and then painted that out more free style with a Kyle acrylic type brush and let my arm and hand work as a single unit to brush it out what I wanted, alternating tones from a more pure white to darker ones. In the left center foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring the Oregon Cascades :-)