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From: g benson Category: Art Date: 09 January 2010 Time: 10:51 AM Review: Kieron's tips for landscape painting 1 "Go on holiday to where you really want to go, and be inspired." 2 "Start with acrylics, then watercolours, then pastels and then oils" 3 When you set out to do a landscape, "start with the sky first, top to bottom." 4 "When you do distance, it's lighter, and when you do foreground it comes darker." 5 "If you're doing a figure in the winter, do a brown head, leave a small gap, do a blue jacket and brown legs. Then with the gap get a red pastel and do a flick of red so it looks like a scarf." 6 "Keep on painting." Interestingly i was given three of these tips when at the RCA