mountains using Bob Ross’ palette knife technique

[scribblecatt]

Any advice on translating certain palette knife techniques into AR?

Applying, spreading, smearing translate readily, but when Bobs applies highlights, he uses a physical reality which exists on real canvas but not in AR: high and low spots on the paint to “catch” paint from the lightly-dragged knife.

Clearly I need a brush with a texture or thinner or loading I can vary; so far results are very, “meh.”

Maybe I need to completely forget about the tools Bob Ross uses, and embrace other techniques for applying color in the way he does it..

thank you for any tips on this!

[Enug]

Using rough canvas texture and chalk will produce something like this. I used a plain canvas for the mountain layer and the layer above has the textured canvas.

[Rondo]

hope this can help?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qePZAv_c_SU&t=560s

[lordmage]

I used a wet on wet with the android app and it works well enough for me I find the main trick is using a two pass approach first set the rough peaks then use the edge to pull it down high light with white using pencil if needed I used full pressure and no load on the second pass some times I even follow with wet to soften I posted an image in my feedback thread