Struggling with GREENS in Your Landscape Paintings? Watch This!

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Master the mixing of vibrant, natural greens in this landscape painting tutorial! Join me as I transform stunning reference photos from the Scottish Highlands into a unique composition that showcases how to break free from photo-copying while capturing the essence of the landscape.

In this video, you'll discover:
🎨 Essential techniques for mixing a variety of realistic greens
🏔️ How to create a strong composition from reference photos
🖼️ Tips for interpreting photos creatively rather than copying them
🌿 Solutions for avoiding muddy or artificial-looking greens

Whether you're struggling with landscape greens or want to improve your compositional skills, this tutorial combines technical color mixing with artistic interpretation.

It is perfect for beginners looking to understand greens and experienced artists wanting to refine their landscape painting approach.

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[tonymullins]

Great video man. One thing to add from my days in grad school, the Hudson River School landscape painters (Cole, Durand, etc.) didn't have access to Ult blue as it was still ridiculously expensive. They used Prussian blue mostly. I find it much tougher to work with personally, nearly as bad as Thalo. A very gifted Prof of mine and an exceedingly skilled landscape painter shared with us his "shortcut" for getting these naturally-desaturated greens. Try mixing some greens with a high quality Ivory Black (now Bone Black) and your yellows (Cad Light, Lemon or Medium). It's a surprising little hack that I suspect other historical painters used before French Ult Blue became so affordable.

[tba]

For distant greens I like mixing cerulean blue with yellow ochre or cerulean and cadmium yellow with a little bit of cadmium red light. Sometimes I'll gray greens with burnt umber. A lot of interesting greens can be made using black as a base.

[ChooseTruthAlways]

Your teachings are Simply that of a Perfect Teacher who Knows exactly what it is to understand the art of teaching. 🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖

[alwayscurious]

You’re absolutely awesome and so helpful! I’ve been working with soft pastels for the past year and want to incorporate painting too. I’ve just ordered my first set of Golden Open Acrylics. I’ve been taking notes on color mixing. I guess I’ll find out how deep I want to go after my first week of mixing colors and making swatches. If it’s working out for me I will be going back to school with your classes. Thank you❣️

[henryrummins]

Demonstrating your skill and talent very well indeed Sam, lovely.

[ktouchstonetouchstone]

I was led here from your pin on Pinterest, and just had to come here to say how grateful I am for your content. Pinterest is chalked full of click bait art "lessons", so when I stumbled across your page, I was in awe of all the helpful tutorials and mixing guides you have so thoughtfully taken the time to make and share with self taught artists. Thank you so much Sam, you have no idea how much you helped me find my passion for painting.

[rustyshackleford]

Truly helpful thank you Sam! Your video has perfect timing

[paulperry]

Beautiful painting excellent explanation.

[akshaybasarge]

Good tips for getting better in landscape painting 🖼️

[DeborahHamilton-qw]

Perfect timing for this to come up! I've been struggling all morning with exactly this!

[MatijaVuk-zn]

owww, . so gorgeous variety of greens :)

[rockywoolverton]

Very helpful Sam. Thanks for sharing your expertice. Yes I would love the E-book.

[MB-kfyx]

Very useful video and discussion. Thank you for sharing your expertise.

[Karl]

What a great demo ...well explained as well

[louiselincoln]

Love the painting and how you handled the intensity of the greens! Very instructive! Thank you!

[leslieball]

great stuff Sam it turned out better than i thought it wound the greens and everything

[barbarathompson]

No not the exact rendition but unmistakably, in part, the Three Sisters. Wonderful work to go along with wonderful memories.

[Mike]

Great job. Thanks. It would be good to explain what it was you didn't like about the mountain in the background. I thought it looked really good. But in the end, changing it was the right choice. I also like the reference to Tischler.

[paulsmodels]

Thanks for the report.
I've lived in California all my life, most of it has been in N. CA. I can't tell you how many times I have seen it do the complete opposite from what the weather forecast tells.
As the old saying goes..Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it, or something like that.

[ca]

I paint in acrylics and have neon greens.
Thanks for the help. I'm making a swatch series of mixed paints...