Hello, everyone! I’m happy to say that this piece is finally complete!!

Here are a few steps followed from a tutorial to create the background using acrylic:

❶ Pick a size of canvas that best works for the painting. I used a 15 x 30 canvas.

❷ Mix a few different shades of browns. Use darker shades for the trees that are closer to the foreground and lighter shades for the trees that are slightly blending in with the background. Start drawing in trees a little above the half point of the canvas. Trees closer to the foreground should appear to have thicker trunks and branches than the ones that are further back.

❸ Mix a variety of greens (nature painting = greens, greens and more greens!). Using the dry brush technique, which uses more pigment than water, start painting in the darker shades first. For this painting, I added in the lighter shades to all the areas where I felt the light may fall.

❹ Add in a bit of yellow to highlight the small areas of the painting on which reflected light appears the brightest (this can also turn out to look like flowers, a bonus).

❺ Add a variety of plants all around using different kinds of brushes to give different shapes and textures. Add in a bit of blue for the sky (thin the paint first using water) – be sure to make the edges darker and as you move in towards the centre, tone down the shade and slowly blend it into white.

❻ Using a Fan Brush, add in some white for the fall. This is fairly easy to do, you just start from the top and pull down the brush to create the perfect texture/strokes. Voila! You’ll have yourself a nice fall. This brush makes this step run smoothly 🙂

**This can get very time consuming depending on the canvas size, be prepared to put aside some good amount of working hours for this piece!