Autumn Birch Forest

I'm still working the autumn scenes. This one is a 16x20 wrapped canvas. The deer was done in acrylics first. Then masked. I masked off Five foreground trees for later. Next came sponging in the dark foliage in acrylic and laying down a dark forest floor in acrylics. Everything to this point was various mixes of shaded wood brown, black, and white. Then I added some distance birch trees with moon blue. With the acrylic base done, I added a clear glaze  medium. The tree leaves were done with a transparent color, using the clear medium and the desired color to tint the sky area. Colors used were cadmium yellow, burnt sienna, and some van dyke brown at the fringe edges. The sun beams were titanium white; brushed on with a fan brush edge and then soften with a mop brush. The ground cover was put on using color harmony. The masking tape was then removed from the foreground birch trees and they were glazed and painted. Finally, the masking was removed from the deer to add clean glaze and various highlights. Overall very happy with how this one turned out. Lots of fun.