Hi, I'm Gerald and I'm really looking forward to showing you how to paint this hillside landscape. Using a painting knife is a great way to keep your painting loose. And also it can help you to create impressionists style paintings that look fresh with a bold approach. You will see how effective it can be to limit yourself to using just three primary colors and white. It's a really great discipline to start with. And you will learn far more about color mixing than having lots of tubes of pre mixed colors.

I've created this hillside landscape composition to keep it simple, especially if you are starting your journey into landscape painting. Even if you have some previous experience, you will benefit from doing this because you might not have used a painting knife before and restricted yourself to using three primary colors. I've broken this whole painting process down into a series of easy Step by step videos that you can follow along with me at your own pace. And in the next video, I'm going to cover the three acrylic primary colors and some basic materials that you will need to get started.