Holiday Edition- Night Mountain Landscape Speed Drawing - Oil Pastel

Happy Holidays everybody!
This is a drawing I did on christmas eve using oil pastels. This video shows you how I drew the picture from start to finish.

This final picture can be viewed from my facebook fan page here
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tylers-Art-Shack/181883048490319

This picture took me about an hour and a half to draw. It was done by Sennelier oil pastels.

I decided to draw a holiday edition drawing for all of my fans of youtube. This drawing is done in a very Bob Ross style. He is one of my favorite painters and love his style. I have never done a painting at night before and wanted to give it a shot.
Hope you enjoy

I started this drawing off by making an outline for where the mountains would be placed. From there, I made a transition from light blue all the way to black for the sky. Towards the end of the drawing, I added in some stars to give it an extra appeal to it.

I right after started to fill in the mountains. I used a white color for the lighter side of the picture, and a lighter blue color for the shadow side of the mountain. I find that after a fresh snowfall and a bright moon, that the landscape is lit up very bright. So i replicated this as best as I could.

After shading in the mountains, I went back in and added in some black to indicate some rocks and little things like that. I added more of these towards the base of the mountain. I then used a blending stump and started to blend out the base of the mountains to create a layer of mist. This helps to give a nice transition from the mountains to the tree line.

I added in the tree line just by simply using up and down like strokes with black and then green for the tops of the trees. I also added in more trees below the tree line and they would later become a reflection in the water. As the tree line came closer and closer to the picture plane, I made some trees larger and put snow on the branches to indicate a fresh snow fall. For the waters reflection, I used the same colors I did for the sky. I started off with the reflection of the trees and working our way towards the picture plane, I added in a lighter blue that went all the way to a very dark blue and eventually black.

I added in some snow banks at the edge of the river and put some snow on them. I carried the black water all the way up to the picture plane. and added some water marks into it to make it look like it was moving. I also added in some stars reflecting into the water.

Music is from Kevin MacLeod and the song is called "It came upon a Midnight Clear"

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[cloneofatb]

Amazing job! I would like to ask you what kind of white colour do you use... Thank you very much

[TylersArtShack]

@cloneofatb it is just a white oil pastel made by sennelier. All the oil pastels in this video are made by them.

[Heromis191]

Thanks for sharing :)

the drawing is so awesome :)

I'm just a little bit curious about the one that you used for blending colors,, :)

[TylersArtShack]

@Heromis191 I use a blending stump to blend the oil pastels. It is just compost paper compressed into a pencil like shape. You can find them at any hobby and craft store.

[KnightChigo23]

what colors did you use?

[TylersArtShack]

@KnightChigo23 I have so many different colors. I also blend and mix a lot of them. So being able to tell you exactly what colors were used would be very difficult.

[Bon2994]

wow thats amazing!

[goose1123]

Nice work btw, question about the trees in the foreground. When you apply the white to the branches how do you get the white to really stand out? Also what color are the trees? Thanks!

[TylersArtShack]

@JANNAxRAWR blending stump. A white color would reduce the pigment of a color making it less vibrant.