Lindsay Weirich, the Frugal Crafter, recently produced a tutorial showing how to use granulating pigments to create texture in watercolor paintings.
I loved the tutorial and wanted to try her technique. But I had in mind a landscape. Specifically, I wanted to paint mountains.
One of the artists I follow is Mitch Zeissler. He posts photographs taken over the past ten or so years using a Leica 35mm film camera. The one I have in mind is a black and white picture of the Madison Range in Montana.
South Along the Madison Range – ÆtherPx (aetherpx.com)
What attracted my eye were the lines of the landscape. They drew a series of enclosed planes that could be filled with a variety of granulating colors in a wide range of values.
Once I had worked through that step, I painted the foreground with some imagined animals and prairie grasses. Today it was finished.
Thank you, Lindsay and Mitch for sharing your work and stoking my creativity.
Daily Fiber 
Ooooooo, I like! It’s funny you added the deer; we didn’t see any that day because a grizzly bear was known to be in the area while we were hiking.
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Wow, grizzly bears. That’s what keeps me from hiking in the mountains. And the fact that mountains are two days drive from here. I’m glad you like my work.
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We hike with whatever wildlife is out there, but we’re very careful and alert about doing so.
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Your landscape is beautiful.
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Thank you!
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Your distant hills shaping and shading is really lovely.
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Thank you!
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