Art Journal: "How To Paint Sunset Over The Lake"

Greetings Hiver friends, How are you there? Today I decided to paint a sunset view with acrylic medium. This type of subject is interesting to paint. Several famous artists loved to paint the brilliance of the setting sun. In this post, I will share with you how to paint beautiful sunset scenery over the lake.
I used nine sets of colors of acrylic paint and four types of painting brushes. It took me fifty minutes to finish this painting.
Materials Needed:
👉 Acrylic paper pad
👉 Pencil and eraser
👉 Ruler
👉 Clean Water
👉 Rag
👉 Paper napkin

Brushes:
👉 Flat Brush /small #10, 10/32 / 8.0mm
👉 Liner Brush #2 / 2/32" / 1.6mm
👉 Round Brush #8 / 5/32" / 4.0mm
👉 Filbert brush

Acrylic Paint:
👉 Titanium white
👉 Ultramarine blue
👉 Mars black
👉 Burnt sienna
👉 Grass green
👉 Green mid
👉 Lemon yellow
👉 Yellow ochre
👉 Magenta

Painting Process:Outline the painting reference.

Background \Sky: Ultramarine blue, titanium white, lemon yellow, and orange.
Create some clouds and soft light.

Middle ground:
Distant objects: Blue, orange, and black
Brush: Filbert brush

Foreground:
Closer Trees, Mars black and magenta
Round brush in creating the tree trunks.
Put some highlights of blue, white, and some yellow.
Leaves: Grass green, black, and yellow ochre.
Brush: Filbert brush

For the lake, the same colors as the sky, to stand out the lake I put some reflection on it. Specially the light source should be emphasized. I used a flat brush for this part.