My First Harris Hills is a layered approach, where I started with watery layers of Hansa Yellow Medium, Burnt Sienna, and Cerulean Blue Chromium. When that had dried I mixed a green and layered it on top. My third layer were the details and shadows.
My second Harris Hills I worked fast for a wet in wet. I used no pencil lines so I lost the shapes. My paper dries super fast! Is it the Alpha paper or my desert climate? I did the entire painting in 12 minutes, not including drying time! I rather love the atmospheric mood of this wet in wet one. I might add ink lines to another one, just to see how it affects the landscape, but I love this one as is.
I did this Welsh landscape mostly wet in wet, though my foreground got too dry too quickly. I love what happened in the sky with the blooms and bleeds. This one took me just ten minutes, not including drying time! The grey background hill I’m quite happy with, and I’m definitely preferring using cobalt for skies over cerulean. My trees in the foreground had some trouble, and using some ink lines may help define them better.
Jamie's Sketchbook 