Fog painting

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Learn how to paint fog and mist as well as other transient effects. Full step by step oil painting tutorial for beginners.

In nature, fog varies from a pale, translucent mist to thick, opaque blankets of white. When drawing fog, use charcoals and a blending stick to achieve this range of density. By blending vast areas of shadow, you achieve the feathery nature of fog and capture its opacity.

Oil painting of a foggy road in the forest at dawn.

Claude Monet's Houses of Parliament, Fog Effect 1 is an impressionist style of fog painting using oil on canvas. One of Monet's more famous paintings, Houses of Parliament, reveals a blurred perspective with variations of white mixed into the colorful painting to allow for the "fog effect."

Misty landscapes from Switzerland, Belgium and Madeira