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.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
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