Tools and Techniques. Hugh Greer demonstrates the flexibility of acrylics as both an opaque and transparent medium. He covers a variety of tools, presents a versatile money – saving limited palette, simple color mixing tips, creating lively blacks and demonstrates several basic landscape images that will get you off to an enthusiastic start. This is the first of three acrylic landscape painting workshop DVDs with Hugh Greer. 90 min (Acrylic Painting Video/DVD, Beginning, DVD).