How To Paint – Snowy Lakeside Cabin – Step By Step Acrylic Painting Tutorial

Are you learning to paint? Looking for some easy tutorials? I’ll take you step-by-step through a series of paintings and teach along the way. In this painting, we are doing a snowy lakeside cabin. I will show you from beginning sketches to the final brush stroke how to paint this calming scene.

It is based off of a cabin/lodge at Emerald Lake in Alberta, Canada.

Materials:

• 8×10 canvas
• 1 inch flat brush
• 1/4 inch flat brush
• 1/2 inch bristle flat brush
• Fan brush
• 0 round brush

Paint:

• Titanium White
• Mars Black
• Payne’s Gray (can use black with a little blue if needed)
• Hooker’s Green Hue Permanent
• Burnt Umber (a brown that isn’t quite as dark as raw umber)
• Raw Umber (dark brown)
• Yellow Ochre
• Primary Yellow (not really needed)
• Red Oxide

Timestamps:

• 0:56 – Sketch with pencil
• 3:51 – Background
• 15:02 – Trees – Background and Foreground
• 32:27 – Cabin
• 49:09 – Shoreline
• 52:50 – Reflection
• 1:02:08 – Finishing touches on cabin and trees

Here is the image of the painting that you can use as a reference if you would like.

You can find the image that I used as a reference here: https://unsplash.com/photos/cQxwarmp4ag

Make sure to check out all of my other step-by-step acrylic painting tutorials here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwArmvEb6UpYDhhJn_Cc_nbC5eGu4kvJh

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