This is a landscape mixed media painting, on canvas, inspired by the pictures I took on my last trip to France. You can see those pictures by clicking on the image below on the FlickR set:

Fields in Greens and Blues, mixed media landscape painting tutorial

On a 24 x 24 inches canvas, I start with a yellow acrylic under painting, and am drawing a rough outline of my landscape.

I start with some washes of green acrylic that I spray with water.

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Then I start applying layers of acrylic..

I work by layers adding more and more details to the painting.

Then I start to add some layers of liquid acrylic with lots of water, I sometimes spray with alcohol

Here some yellow liquid acrylic on the fields.

I also add some pastels when the paint is dried to try different colors on the painting.

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When I am done with the pastels I spray some fixative to be able to work with acrylics again.

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I continue adding more layers of acrylic.

Adding more complexity to the painting, motifs in the fields, more colors…

The finished painting, Fields in Greens and Blues