The kissing gate

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

■ Practise an easy method for painting trees and bushes

■ Add simple figures to your landscape

■ Enjoy working with acrylics – mistakes are easily rectified

You will need

■ Surface

● Canvas 16x12in. (40.5x30.5cm)

■ Daler-Rowney Aquafine brushes

● Flats 1½in. & ¾in.

● Round No. 8

● Rigger No. 4

■ Daler-Rowney System 3 acrylics

● Cobalt blue

● Titanium white

● Payne’s grey

● Hooker’s green

● Raw sienna

● Burnt sienna

● Crimson

● Naples yellow

● Raw umber

I had a bit of a different start to this demonstration painting because, before beginning to tell you how to paint