A practical, mixed media art book, illustrated with finished paintings and short exercises that encourage an experimental approach to painting the natural landscape. This book guides the reader through simple combinations of wet media such as watercolour, gouache, acrylic and Indian inks. It goes on to examine and include other media and techniques; exploring media that combine happily, and those that resist each other to create interesting and unexpected effects. It offers strategies for developing concepts and improving design, with a chapter devoted to the formal elements—line, shape, colour, tone, texture and surface pattern—that can be harnessed to produce impactful work. Readers will be provided the tools and inspiration to find their own interpretations. Exciting techniques such as washing or spraying off an image, using improvised mark-making tools, preparing a variety of collage papers such as painting through tissue paper are included; alongside printing or stencilling acrylic gel or texture paste to enliven a surface.