This is my latest mixed media painting on canvas, my inspiration was a picture I took during our summer road trip to Alberta. I used acrylics, and pastels to paint and painted with brush, knife and occasionally my fingers:-)
Through the Rolling Fields, Landscape mixed media painting tutorial
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This is my red under-painting, I drew a very simple outline of my landscape with a white pastel. The blue marks are some stamping I made to add a bit of texture.

Introducing some blue acrylic, whenever I add a color in a part of the painting I like to add touches of the same color in other areas of the painting.

I am unifying the sky with a layer of white paint diluted in water and the foreground with a layer of orange and yellow diluted in water.

Here I start to define more elements in the landscape, the path had been painted with red acrylics and I made patterns in the wet paint with a textured tissue paper.

I continue adding colors with glazes of different colors ( acrylic mixed with medium) and paint the bushes on the left adding texture with the painting knife.


















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Lovely. Thank you for sharing the process with us.
Thanks Jane
beautiful , quiet painting
lovely to see your progression through the paint
on a technical note: do you wait for the glaze to dry or go in wet for another texture?
Hello Bethsciallo,
Thanks for your comment, you question is interesting. I usually work by layers so I am applying the colors separately one on top of each other. I will sometimes mix them when they are still wet, like for the blue and white on the sky in this example (that I applied with a rubber spatula and a brush), but will usually avoid to mix my glazes. Especially because I don’t have an exact idea of the final color until it is dried, the medium making the colors look milky.
I use glazes here just for the lasts steps to tie the colors together and adjust the intensity of colors, I toned down a bit the blue of the sky for example
So lovely…I enjoyed watching your process here, thanks for sharing
It is so interesting to see the colors layered and how they all work together in the final painting.
Thanks Jo Ann, I am glad you liked it
Just found you, interesting blog. I enjoyed reading through your technique on the ‘Rolling Fields’. The final result is stunning.
Thanks northpenninegallery, I really appreciate your comment