I still struggle with mountains and I tend to avoid doing paintings that include them. I recently started trying to sell my work, and I know mountain paintings sell well, so I thought I'd better practice!
To prepare for my practice, I spread some titanium white on a piece of cardboard and let it sit for an hour or so to soak some of the oil out of it. Once I had the dark shape of the mountain put in, I thought I was good to go, but not quite. It wasn't until I blotted the dark base shape with shop towel that it really started to work well.
I still don't get how Bob got it to work on camera without those extra steps! A mystery for the ages haha.
Thanks for taking a look :)
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They look good! I found that barely touching the canvas and letting it sort of glue itself to the knife as a very gently pull it down has helped a lot!