Hi Louise and everyone in the course, I’m new here and have started the first assignment: sketching the landscape in my surroundings. I loved looking at your uploads and I’m excited to learn with and from you! Elke

Louise Balaam - Monthly Landscape Painting

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September 27, 2025

← Felt inspired to put some early morning mist into the foreground of this view of Rigi mountain on Lake Lucerne. Not really sure if it has worked, so I may leave it for a week or two before tweaking the surface detail. I used a mixture of Hardings Warm White with their Flake white substitute . This seems to move about on the canvas during the long drying process to create the wonderful veil effect. I’m hoping just like mist hanging over the surface of the lake! Foggy morning. Painted with ink and birch twigs, and with oil using a rubber spatula and brush. This was a lot of fun. →

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Louise Balaam on September 28, 2025 at 2:08 pm

Welcome Elke! and thanks for posting your drawings. Glad you’ve been enjoying the videos!
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