This video includes a time-lapse plus photos of the steps taken to paint a waterfall, creek and rocks using acrylics, including glazing techniques.

This is an overall warm painting, using reds, yellows, and warm greens.

The design is a pattern of repeating triangular shapes plus a strong diagonal from the top left to lower right.

Colours are created with glazes (transparent layers of paint thinned with GAC 500 mixed with glazing medium), on top of other transparent and opaque layers.

McPhee Falls is located in Castlegar, BC, located in the West Kootenays of BC, Canada.

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Mirja Vahala Art Studio


Bio:
Mirja Vahala has taught and mentored 1000s of artists since 2008 at the Mirja Vahala Art Studio in Castlegar, BC. Mirja also liaisons with Selkirk College to teach all levels popular courses such as true beginner drawing and painting, as well as design, colour and other advanced courses. Past escapades include teaching and painting on board Holland America’s Veendam around South America and the Antarctic, as well as plein air courses and events in Italy and Cannon Beach.

Before beginning the life of fine art in 2003, Mirja spent 20 years in the graphic design industry. After selling her graphic design business she and her husband relocated to the West Kootenays.

With grants from the Columbia Basin Trust, Mirja has traveled to many Kootenay towns and cities to conduct a variety of workshops. Her paintings have shown at Cannon Beach, FCA Gallery/Granville Island, Kimberley Arts Centre, Gallery 378 and Kootenay Gallery, as well as at her studio located at Windborne Bed and Breakfast in the West Kootenays of British Columbia.

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Mirja Vahala Art Studio
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