Sunset Marsh Oil Painting Tutorial + Timelapse || How to Paint a Snowy Realism Landscape with Water

This is the full tutorial for "Marshlight," the first of twelve paintings in my online art series, The Square Foot Show. This tutorial will use a limited palette to teach you: how to paint a sunset sky using alla prima, make trees look backlit, block in your colours and values, how to paint grass, layering with oil paint, and mixing blacks. This is my first oil painting tutorial, and my channel will now feature both oil painting and acrylic painting tutorials for beginners and intermediate emerging artists. I'm a realistic artist with a focus on photorealism, though I sometimes veer into impressionism and tonalism. My landscape paintings are inspired by my home in beautiful Northern Ontario (specifically North Bay, though I sometimes paint the Muskoka region).
If this is your first time painting in oils, please don't be discouraged or frustrated with any setbacks! Learning a new medium takes time, and it took me a few years to become comfortable working with oils instead of acrylics. Stick with it, it's worth it!
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Materials used:
- 12" x 12" Gallery Profile Canvas
- Gesso
- Limited Palette: burnt umber, titanium white, ultramarine blue, quinacridone red, cadmium yellow medium, cadmium orange. (in this video, I used Winsor & Newton and M. Graham & Co.).
- Variety of brushes, including a foam brush for priming the canvas
- Favourite detail brush: black gold by dynasty mini-liner brush in size 20/0
- Winsor & Newton Liquin (both in fine detail and regular consistency).
- Kamar by Krylon spray varnish (after the video)

[@mosaicartwmichaelmonreaux1911]

I like your speaking voice. It makes the painting process more tranquil

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much!!!! I’m so glad you like the voiceover!!!

[@Faiza_Hassan]

Thank you so much for giving so much valuable information . So glad I came across your channel! loved it!

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

I’m so happy you came across my channel too!!! Thank you so much for your lovely comment!

[@bilalpazarl2007]

Tanrı size çok güzel bir yetenek vermiş, ne kadar teşekkür etseniz azdır.

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much!!!

[@susanchae4596]

Beautiful work!

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much, Susan!

[@sarahnorthrop9823]

Stunning 💖

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much, Sarah!!

[@Ab.drowing2]

I like how you explaing everything when you painting 😊👏

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much!

[@user-qb3pu8es8g]

😍😍😍😍😍❤️ it’s amazing!

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much!!

[@bonniekennedy7771]

Really love how you make the trees glow like this, thank you so much for sharing

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thanks, Bonnie! Figuring that little hack out has been a game changer for sunset paintings with tree lines 🌅 🥰

[@indrekviller]

Extremely beautiful. Cannot wait your future works - the feeling of photorealism is just out of this world. Thank you so much for making this and sharing this.

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much!!! I’m so excited for the projects to come!!!

[@marglawrence1530]

I must try this one. It is so inviting. Love the view and the realism in all of your paintings.

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

I would love if you did!!!

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

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[@styleraimee]

It is sooooo beautiful 😍 Thank you for sharing! I love the details of the trees and how you paint this perfect setting of the sun in the branches.

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much!!! I appreciate the feedback immensely!

[@nanapessoah]

Você tem talento completo. 👏👏👏👏👏

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Muito obrigado!

[@daisyherrera-kall9600]

Beautiful work painting, filming and narrating. If possible I would love to see close ups of your brush strokes. Like when you were painting the pines in the background w/a thin brush, then layering with a contrast color so that the trees stand out and differentiate with what's farthest and closest. I would also like to see a closer image of the brush tips you use and the tools that you create -(wand w/what looked to be a big q-tip looking end, so you could create straight lines w/out touching canvas). Need close ups of these tools during tutorial. Thank you for sharing your work and letting us know how you go about it. I'm not there yet but all tips and examples help. 😊

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Hi Daisy! Thank you so much for your incredibly descriptive and helpful feedback! I will definitely take all of this into consideration as I make future content for this channel. I'll be improving and tweaking my setup in the months and years to come, and feedback like this helps me figure out which areas specifically to focus on. So thank you! As a side note, the giant Q-tip tool I'm using is called a Mahl stick, and is incredibly useful. I wanted to do a video just on how I made mine and use it. Essentially, it's a piece of wooden dowel with a balled up piece of paper and masking tape on the top. I use it to steady my hand when I'm working over wet areas. It's a wonderful tool!

[@amystewart4929]

Beautiful painting

[@jackiegarroutte8970]

Beautiful!!

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you, Jackie! This one was made with so much love!

[@chillwithmolly4761]

Wow So nice Drawing Di it is looking Real 😇🎨🎨.

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much!

[@FillardyAdzani]

woww you deserve more viewers on your channel! totally amazed with your works! im new subscriber. keep up the great work!

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

I appreciate that! I’m just so happy and grateful to see it growing 🙌

[@sirinwasofwan]

so beautyfull painting ...

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you so much!!! ☺️

[@jetsonjoe]

Lovely indeed...Here is the thing...what is recommended acrylics or oil painting...What are your thoughts?

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

This is oil, but I do both. It really depends on the subject and your comfort level. I will always prefer oil for blendability but usually teach in acrylic because of accessibility.

[@GayanthiPereraArt]

Loved watching and listening to your process, I learn so much from watching how Artists work, thank you :-)

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you for watching!

[@mecedesa2623]

👍👍👍👍👍👍🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸❤

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Thank you!

[@chriswhitehouse8982]

Nice work Marianne. Can you clarify something for me? I'm always confused about layers in oils (i.e. fat over lean). In this painting, did you just add some Liquin into your paints at the beginning and then use the same mixtures each time you painted a new layer? If so, that would certainly simplify things rather than having to use different mediums with different ratios of oil for every layer.

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

Hi Chris, I actually do exactly as you say, where I use liquin straight out of the gate and paint in thin layers. I don’t tend to use impasto style, which would definitely require fat over lean, and instead just paint in thin layers with liquin. If I want a longer dry time, such as for a large sky or water, I just omit the liquin. But I don’t tend to layer that heavily with my paintings. All I do is have a small amount of liquin on my palette, then dip my brush into it and mix it into the colour I’m using. I barely use any but it’s very effective in accelerating the dry time.

[@chriswhitehouse8982]

@@MarianneVanderDussen Thank you so much for the reply. Hope to see more oil tutorials from you! 😀

[@MarianneVanderDussen]

@@chriswhitehouse8982 next one is acrylic, then back to oil! It’s my preferred professional medium, but I often teach in acrylic due to its accessibility!