Road Trip, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas painting tutorial and prezi presentations

Road Trip: mixed media on canvas

Portfolio: road trip photography

This is the picture I worked from. The colors are pretty muted but I liked the composition with the posts and mountains . I also liked how the road gets you in the picture.

I started with a yellow-orange underpainting in acrylic, then made a rough drawing with a white crayon.

Here I started applying blocs of colors. The drawing in wax crayon act as a resist and stays visible under the layers of Acrylic paint.

I add a layer of white acrylic on the road but find it too heavy.

So I spray lightly with water

And apply a layer of paper towel on the still wet paint.

When I take off the paper towel, I have nice patterns on the road.

I add some layers of diluted white liquid acrylic to the sky area, in a watercolor manner. Spraying Alcohol to add some texture.

Adding more colored layers to the fields and background mountains

Scrubbing off some paint with a sponge.

Adding more acrylic layers, and painting the poles. I am drawing the wires with a pen.

I now spray the painting with water and will scrub off paint again to add more depth and complexity to my colors

I now wait for the paint to dry and now work with dry pastels. The advantage is that I can try different colors and wash them away if I don’t like it.

Adjusting the final details with acrylic, once the pastel has been fixed with spray fixative.

Prezi Portfolio presentation