this particular area struck be the moment I saw it's filled with beautiful

nipples yellows

Alizarin Crimson this area is called twenty Mule Team

and we'll get into that a little bit later but let's go ahead and get

started

I'm gonna take burnt sienna cobalt blue and squeeze it on my pallet

What I'm going to first do is is cut my canvas into three sections

and what I want is the main composition to be in the center part in my painting

I see little pathway

okay what I'm doing is an now getting a little bit more

of a dynamic sketch an little bit more positive with

harder lines as I get into the corner my painting

I wanna apply a little bit more cobalt blue in the corner

I want to darkened the corners of my painting and then more white as I get further than

now notice Im just scrubbing my color in

what we want to do right now is want to capture all the little

footnotes up where the highlight is at this very moment

throughout the pain in the light is gonna be changing

and it would be almost impossible for us to to make

all those changes as the afternoon wears on what I wanted to someone put some

footnotes right where the light is at this very moment

now when I'm going to do them going to notice where

these highlights are

in my composition and I'm just gonna place them in and scribble

very quickly okay these long lines of light

I'm bouncing around and I'm just giving

myself an idea where the light is. What I want to do right now

is actually start on the main peak right

at this very moment the main peak has beautiful cast

of cerulean, blue cobalt blue a little bit of alizarin crimson

kind of a purplish tone and I want to try to get that

in my painting and I'm gonna do that by taking cobalt blue

and white and alizarin crimson I'm gonna

very carefully at this point start laying in the shadow sat on my mountain

at this point we are not going to waste one brushstroke

every brush truck counts we're past the sketching phase

and we're now in the painting phase so what we're doing is we're taking a

mixture of Blue and

yellow I'm and a lot a white and creating a greenish tone

all of these different

tones makeup Death Valley. Now I'm gonna take burnt sienna cobalt blue

these are the same colors that are used in the background mountains

and I'm going to place a little shadows

every one of these little tiny highlights has to have a shadow

and it's important to make

everyone in the shapes a little bit different. At this point I'm gonna switch

to larger brush

and we're gonna start painting in the bushes. We're going to take cobalt blue

in a little bit of yellow ocher and this is a very dry brush compared to what we

were using before

probably one yellow ocher me if you notice

I'm hitting my brush into my pallet

I'm actually trying to break the hairs up so that I can create bushes with

this brush

now we're going to take this color and we're gonna keep in mind that the bushes

in the distance or smaller

this is just like the rocks

things that get feather away from you they get smaller

Now as the bushes come closer they need to get a larger

now we're going to put a little bit a highlight on. What I've done as I

mixed little bit more white and this color and we're just gonna put a little

light on the topic these bushes

a little bit of light

we can also pick up the palette knife

if you can look at the bush on the right, you can scrape in

few little twigs...