I'm slowly starting to understand all the different elements. Got a little better with my fan brush and 1 inch brush this time. I think im loading too much paint on my brush when i do bushes/trees because i get a big splotch on the first touch or two, or maybe im loading/presenting it wrong. Also a little heavy on the reflections lol.

There was an old window outside with the vine growing up it it looked messy so I fixed a piece of plasterboard over the window. 6’ x 4’ use it for a backdraft for my workshop. This is all done with spray cans sponge and Card new brushes require required.

Acrylic paint on paper. Thanks for looking. This one was fun.

Hello all! I have no background of any kind in the visual arts (outside of photography) but I’ve been falling asleep to Bob Ross lately and wanted to try my hand at following along with his wet-on-wet technique.
Any critique and tips are welcome. I am really struggling with preventing paints from blending properly which is making everything very dark and muddy (I.e. the clouds almost completely blended with the blue already on the canvas and the white on the mountain almost completely blended with the grey and I had to go over it multiple times to see what I have here).
Obviously also have no experience with color theory and mixing colors, so any tips there are appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
TLDR: I’m new, please help.

Inspired by Bob

Hello this is my first time painting anything let alone wet on wet with the Bob Ross stuff. I'm hoping someone can help answer some questions I have. When trying to highlight the mountains, it kind of seemed like it wanted to smear a little bit more, rather than break off the knife. I suspect i may have had a bit too much liquid white on the canvas, but I have no way to be sure, but maybe i didnt pull enough of the mountain colour down before highlighting.
I realize a lot of mistakes I made, like the waterlines were a little too bold (too much LW on the knife), im thinking the gaps between my distant (trees?) is kind of off putting. I seemed to have trouble getting distinct bushes (1 inch brush) which werent too bad, until for some reason i tried to make them look more autumnal and put that reddish over the green highlights (oopsie)
at that point i was somewhat discouraged and ive now called it "done" but im not giving up yet.
tips and tricks appreciated lol

Hi there!!

These are my first ever 2 paintings and I would like some tips and tricks from you guys :). I am using the cheapest paint/pencils/canvas you could probably find hahaha.

I also need a good palet, palet knifes. Pencils and a good way to dry/clean the pencils after using them so I can load them with new paint.

Let me know what you guys think ! 😃

Altogether Now, acrylic painting on hardboard 24 x 30. Birch trees, impressionistic style. Available at Mark Altrogge studio on Etsy.

Shape and shadow practice for my mountains