I painted my backdrop hills using a roller. It did a great job quickly, but now I need to make the hills look smooth and more curvey. Do I just use a brush? If so, just make the roller lines curvy or are there other special ways to make the hills more realistic? I have other shades of paint to use for touching up the hills so they don’t look uniform.
TIA!!
Lee
Start from the back and paint thedistant hills with more blue/purple in the green, then work forward reducing the blue/purple. Use a brush to ‘stipple’ in the trees in the more foreground hills. In the closest hils paint a few trunks/branches in brownish grey and then stipple the tree color over the branches. Use a base latex green color and then make shades of green using craft paints.
Dave H.
Those cheap foam brushes work good too. They don’t leave brush marks as bad.
Cut smooth rounded hills into very thin cardstock – what we used to call shirt cardboard – or styrene and use it was a stencil. With care it can be used repeatedly. If you use a decent quality brush there should not be too many brush marks.
There are also very very small paint rollers, about the size of a roll of quarters. That gives you more control.
Dave Nelson