How to Mix Greens for Landscape Paintings

How to Mix Greens for Landscape Paintings

One of the trickiest colours to mix in a landscape painting is green and it’s one that causes artists the most problems. Mix your greens right and they can look amazing and vibrant but get the wrong and they can look acidic and harsh.

In this painting tutorial I will show you how to paint the landscape above and how to mix some basic greens that you can use in a landscape painting.

How to Paint a Mountain Landscape in Acrylics

How to Paint a Mountain Landscape in Acrylics

Mountains are one of my favourite subjects to paint and it’s also a good subject to paint if you are learning to paint landscapes as it’s much easier to see the different tones and values in the scene you are painting.

I normally paint art works in oils but I’ve had a few requests for me to do a painting tutorial using acrylics so this is for the acrylic painters. However if you are an oil painter you still may find this painting tutorial useful as the principles of colour and tone are the same.

For some people painting in oils is not practical, so I wanted to show you that you can still get some good results with acrylics. Also the fact that they dry very quickly can be an advantage.

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