Welcome to this mixed media art experience!

Thank you for choosing to spend some of your valuable time with me, learning to combine watercolour and acrylic paint with another medium you may or may not have used before...drywall compound! I hope that youfind this to be an enjoyable challenge that you will use again in future projects!

As an artist-in-residence, I have successfully instructed hundreds of students in this art project during in-person classes over the past several years. Now I want to share this in an easily accessible way via video course!

In this course, I will take you step-by-step through creating a mixed media mountain landscape on a hardboard canvas. We will paint a background with watercolour, mid-ground with drywall compound and acrylic paint, and foreground details with acrylic paint. Your finished product will be both a sculpture AND a landscape painting!

This video incorporates STEAM concepts (Science/Technology/Engineering/Art/Math) throughout and is excellent for teacher or parent-led projects. If finding your inner da Vinci isn't exactly your focus, this is also just an enjoyable art-making experience for any adult! I have listed this course for "all levels," because you may be a beginner, or more advanced in any one of these art mediums, but perhaps you've never combined them all! This might just be a new challenge for you! The skills you will learn can be taken far beyond landscapes and applied to your favourite art subjects, such as animals, flora, or abstract art!

Through this course, you will learn some other very useful art skills to add to your tool belt:

• Concepts of perspective, scale, distance and the rule of thirds

• Identifying geometric and organic shapes to sketch accurately

• Painting reflections, highlights and shadows to add depth and realism

• Using unique tools and materials, such as palette knives and drywall compound

• Using various types of paintbrushes for different purposes and effects

  
  

  
  

  Mixed Media Mountain Landscape Course Materials List (all supplies are also presented visually in the first lecture of this course. The overview and first lecture are available for free viewing).

  (In order of project steps):

• Reference image of landscape : PLEASE DOWNLOAD FROM “Resources” folder in Introduction video section

• 8x10” or 9x12” Hardboard Canvas

• Mixed media, Bristol or watercolour paper scraps for practice

• Pencil and Eraser

• Water container (any container will do)

• Paint palette (can use plastic lids or cover a plate with some plastic wrap)

• Paper towels or old towel

• Table cover and clothing protector (your choice)

• Watercolour paint (dry or tube). Main colour needed is Cobalt or Phthalo Blue, but others such as Prussian Blue and Turquoise provide nice variation.

• Watercolour paintbrush (any medium to large sizes with soft fibre)

• Low Dust Drywall Compound (pre-mixed)

• Palette knife set and/or plastic knives with prominent teeth

• Plastic spoon and bowl (or plate) for scooping and portioning drywall compound

• Toothpicks

• Acrylic Paint in the following colours: Sap Green, Hooker’s Green, Phthalo Blue, Naples Yellow, Black, White.

• Bristle brushes (flat and/or round in sizes) for painting over the drywall compound.

• Detail brush (angled, round or liner in size) for final highlight or shadow touches.

  
  

Items you may find in your home that we will need for the project:

• Water container (any container will do)

• Paint palette (can use plastic lids or cover a plate with some plastic wrap)

• Paper towels or old towel

• Table cover and clothing protector (your choice)

• Plastic spoon and bowl (or plate) for scooping and portioning drywall compound

• Toothpicks

  
  

  Any similar items you have already in your home can be used as well! You are most welcome to seek other similar items that are sold individually online or in a local art store near you!

  
  

  Once you’ve completed this course, the supplies you have can be used again and again for your next mixed media painting!