Abstract Landscape?

This was supposed to be a mixed media abstract landscape using oil paints and cold wax, with palette knife/credit card. in a class by Maria Teding van Berkhout in the Twelve Days of Creativity on Ivy Newport's website. during Christmas, but it didn't turn out that way. Instead, yesterday after I finished the painting inspired by Jeanne Marie Webb's class, I squeezed out three colors of acrylic paint (cad red lt, thalo blue, yellow ochre) plus white onto the page I had already painted gray, then red, and barely sketched on, picked up my palette knife and just let the paint fly where it would. No wax this time. It was sheer freedom and took less than an hour!

The first photo is of the top of the finished piece, which I cropped off, just playing around.

• Cropped off top

Page background painted with gray gesso with a light pencil barely there sketch

I decided to paint over the gray with cad red lt and sketch again.

Didn't think about it. Just intuitively went for it! I like it!

The bottom two are where I played around with cropping some more. The one at the top is the best crop, I think.

I don't know if you would call this landscape abstract, or not, but it sure was fun and relaxing, especially with my music turned up loud! Very little like the class was meant to be, but I enjoyed the video class, and, at some point, I may actually do a landscape painting using oils and wax. I never know when the urge will strike to do something!

Stay cool and creative!