Would you like to be rid of mud in your work? Would you like to know how you created it in the first place? Let me explain. It can even cause us to doubt our abilities. Frustration when mixing color hinders our creative process. Muddy paintings can be the bane of our existence. Our reaction is usually one of frustration or exasperation followed by, “How did that happen?” Or “Where did that come from?” You had no intention of creating this hue, yet there it is and it detracts from the rest of the painting. It’s that area in the painting where the colors suddenly become very unpleasant reminding us of dishwater or playing outside in the rain. We have all experienced it in our paintings.

Every painter knows what ‘mud’ is and we don’t like it.