Project
Mountain Painting
Bring a scenic landscape indoors with this easy and inexpensive artwork project from craft blogger Meg Allan Cole.

Photography: Rob Tannenbaum
Source: The Martha Stewart Show, March 2012
materials
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Cardboard
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Premade canvas
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Pencil
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Acrylic paint (base color and white)
- Paintbrushes
steps
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Tear cardboard into ragged strips that resemble mountain ridges.
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Lay three to four strips of torn cardboard on premade canvas as desired, creating a natural, layered look.
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With a pencil, lightly trace mountain ridges onto canvas, continuing downward, tracing each strip as you go.
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Mix increasing amounts of white with base color to create a gradient, one color for each traced area on canvas.
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Paint “sky” first (space above first ridge) in the lightest color and continue downward, painting each ridge with a darker color as you go. The bottom ridge should be the base color alone, without any white mixed in. (Tip: For more detailed painting where colors meet each other, use a paintbrush with an angled tip.)
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Once all ridges are painted, go back and touch up each color as needed.
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