Misty Glacier Mountain Lake Water Color Bkgrnd Tutorial Painting for a Beaver

[Lastwoodsman]

Misty Glacier Mountain Lake   Water Color Bkgrnd Tutorial Painting  for a Beaver

Misty Glacier and Mountain Lake   Water Color Background Tutorial Painting  for a Beaver Floatplane

Thur July 30 2026                  post  1  of  2

     I wanted to paint a pic of my  30"  Beaver,  but I needed to find a good landscape scenery background tutorial,  on the web,  first,  for water color painting.

     I followed this beginner tutorial,  which has all blues and  greens for coloring.   First,  I printed out the final pic of the tutorial,  and I went step by step,  using the final pic as a reference,  and pausing the tutorial playing on my Computer screen.   This was really easy.    There are many of these tutorials on the web.

     I also cut out a Beaver pic for the painting.

Watercolor Painting Tutorial | Misty Scenery | Easy Watercolor Painting For Beginners     10:50 min

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Pic #1     4267     I am trying to paint just like the tutorial final pic above.    I have just shaded in the light blue sky on my blank printer paper canvas below.

Pic #2     4269     Starting on the mountains.

Pic #3     4271     Shading in the light blue down to the bottom.

Pic #4     4272     Starting on the green foliage.

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Misty Glacier and Mountain Lake  Water Color Background Tutorial Painting  for a Beaver Floatplane

Thur July 30 2026                  post  2  of  2

Pic #1    4275    Progress on the trees.

Pic #2    4276    Test fit of the Beaver cutout placement.  I looked for a flying beaver on the net,  and this was the right size to print and cut out,  and use,  to find a good spot for it.

Pic #3    4278    And here is my result.  The trees need more greenery,  and there could be more definition to the misty glacier.  Maybe I will search water color painting of glaciers.    But,  I do like how it turned  out.  There are great tips in these videos.

Pic #4    4281    Voila!          Closeup.

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Richard

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Misty Glacier and Mountain Lake  Water Color Background Tutorial Painting  for a Beaver Floatplane

Sat Aug 1 2026      Reply #2

Mountains and Glaciers

    Well,  I kept looking at that  'misty glacier mountain lake'  water color painting pic,  and decided to make my own design,  with a much better design for the mountains and glacier(s).    I decided to go with a huge glacier flow,  retreating glacier,  instead of a misty glacier,  while also keeping the trees and the mountain lake,  left in the foreground.

    I went down the rabbit hole of glaciers and snowy mountains,  and found some good artists versions of monochromatic blue mountains,  and lots of videos on watercolor painting.    Even coloring books and paint by numbers were scrolled. 

    Here are a few pics I used as reference.  It's a fascinating story.    In order to draw a glacier,  it is good to know the terms and names of the different parts of the anatomy of a glacier.

    Here are some good water color pics I used as a reference.  I ended up choosing a retreating glacier. 

    I will be using monochromatic blue color schemes which consist of various shades (add black),  tints (add white),  and tones (add gray),  of blue color,  thus creating a cohesive and calming aesthetic.

    Blue hues evoke feelings of confidence, wisdom, and calmness.       

Some Glacier Terms

Snout or tongue or terminus or toe
Tributary glaciers and snow tributaries
Snow Streams
Avalanche runs
Snow accumulation zone

Pic #1    Glacier  2

Pic #2    Glacier  5

Pic #3    4288    Four pic collage  -  two types of glacial terminus toe.   This was a lot of thinking on how to incorporate the retreating glacier, into the place where the misty glacier is.

Pic #4    Artist painting a glacier in the olden days.  He went to a lot of trouble to get to that view point in order to paint from.  The good ol' days.

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Richard

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Misty Glacier and Mountain Lake   Water Color Background Tutorial Painting  for a Beaver Floatplane

Sat Aug 1 2026       Reply #3

Mountains and Glaciers

Pic #1     GLACIER SIMPLE OUTLINE WITH MOUNTAINS   Glaciers are like a river,  going through the valleys between the mountain peaks.

Pic #2     GLACIERS FIVE TYPES     In my painting,  it will be numerous valley glaciers or tributary glaciers,  coming down into forming a  Piedmont Glacier.

Pic #3     RETREATING GLACIER TERMINOLOGY     My glacier should sort of look like this.

Pic #4     GLACIER  1     Look at that big terminus wall!

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Richard

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Misty Glacier and Mountain Lake   Water Color Background Tutorial Painting  for a Beaver Floatplane

Sat Aug 1 2026       Reply #4


Pic #1     GLACIER  3     Another nice watercolor painting.

Pic #2     GLACIER  4     Rivers of melt water,  under and through a glacier.
 
Pic #3     GLACIER MENDENHALL IN ALASKA     This glacier is  "calving",  into a lake.   Note how small the trees are right beside the glacier face on the left.    I don't know if I will have ice boulders floating in lake water right beside the face,   or,   just have braided streams through the eskers,  drumlins,  and moraines,  and kettles of an ice boulder field.

Pic #4     GLACIER CALVING     The snow and ice on the outside is dirty,  but inside it is monochromatic blue in color where it broke off.

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Richard

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Misty Glacier and Mountain Lake   Water Color Background Tutorial Painting  for a Beaver Floatplane

Sat Aug 1 2026       Reply #5

Pic #1     GLACIER  BLUE     This pic is awesome.   It has yellows and browns also.

Pic #2     GLACIER  FACE     Beautiful calving edge splintering crevasses of lateral and longitudinal cracks.

Pic #3     RETREATING GLACIER  3    Before and After.   You can see how the tongue on the left pic,  is almost gone in the right pic.

Pic #4     RETREATING GLACIER  4     Ice Field of Ice chunks and ice boulders left over,  on the outwash plain.

SCIENCE TREK  Glaciers
https://sciencetrek.org/topics/glaciers

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Richard

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Misty Glacier and Mountain Lake  Water Color Background Tutorial Painting  for a Beaver Floatplane

Sat Aug 1 2026      Reply #6

Pic #1    RETREATING GLACIER  1928  2002  2024    If that mountain is  10,000 feet tall,  then the glacier  thickness is  5,000 feet -  that is a mile thick!

Pic #2    Glacier Anatomy    a good diagram description.

    There is a very very famous guy (Van Life U-tuber) on the Internet,  who climbs mountains and glaciers (mostly walking/hiking up - not loads of rock climbing equipment),  and bags summits big time,  and I mean big time!    He has the greatest pics and videos,  of National Geographic quality,  and the greatest pics and videos,  and the most spectacular drone footage,  of mountains and glaciers,  on the web.    I have been watching him for years now.    Real and authentic.  The very best.

    His name is Foresty Forest and his little Jack Russel Terrier dog,  lady "Rocco" and him,  climb all of these mountains together.  Truly amazing.  Unbelievable!  The videos he gets of the mountain ranges into the distance, are unreal.  He mostly does big time mountains (eleveners -  ie eleven thousand feet),  in the Rocky Mountains areas,  of British Columbia (BC),  province of Canada.

Website:
https://www.youtube.com/@forestyforest

Pic #3    APE LAKE  BC

Pic #4    ROCCO SUMMIT  2  They are sitting on top of that crag,  with their backs to us,  looking out over the vast expanse of mountain tops ...

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