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Landscape mixed media painting tutorial : Farming landscape

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Landscape mixed media painting tutorial : Farming landscape

Landscape mixed media painting tutorial :  Farming landscape
Farming Landscape,
mixed media on canvas
24 x 24 inches
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Sometimes when starting a painting I have a clear idea of what I want it to look like when I am done, sometimes it is just a process of trial and error that will last until I am satisfied with the result. This painting is one of those.

Landscape mixed media painting tutorial :  Farming landscape

Here are some of the steps I took during the making of that mixed media landscape.

golden absorbent ground medium
I prepare my canvas with an absorbent ground paste as I want to try to start my painting with gouaches.
drawing a landscape on canvas
Once the ground is dried, I draw a simple pencil outline, I made up a landscape from taking elements in 2 reference pictures and mixing them up.
painting with gouache and mixed media
I start with some washes of gouache.
spraying alcohol on paint
I am spraying some alcohol to add texture to those washes.
step by step acrylic painting lesson : layering paint
I start layering acrylics with opposites colors, for example the yellow-orange fields are painted in blue, blue sky ion yellow, trees in red…
painting with gouache
I add a wash of gouache on the sky area
step by step acrylic painting lesson : layering paint
I start to add washes of acrylic with local colors.
step by step acrylic painting lesson : layering paint
still adding washes of acrylics. Then I work with dry pastels, fixing them with workable fixative.
acrylic paint diluted in water
Then I add layers of very diluted acrylics to get a wet look.
step by step acrylic painting techniques
Still working by adding layers of acrylics and pastels, I don’t like the barn anymore on that painting as I feel it looks too cliché and is not needed in the design, so I decide to paint over it
step by step acrylic painting techniques
I paint only trees where the barn was, continue working on the layers of acrylic and pastels. I want to increase a bit the contrast and make the colors more vibrant
Landscape mixed media painting tutorial :  Farming landscape
The final painting: Farming Landscape, mixed media on canvas ( 24 x 24 inches)
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Comments (4)

  1. I like the contrast in the designs of the different field spaces, Sandrine. Whoops! There went that barn! What fun!

    1. Yes, it is fun to change your mind in the middle of the process 🙂 Thanks Leslie!

  2. I love seeing/reading how you want about this. And I really like your final image. The trees remind me of people on a march. I like that you took the barn out too. Made for a more interesting work, I think.

    1. Thanks Katie, I liked it way better without the barn too 🙂

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