I noticed out field sketching that animals live in habitat, and my habitat skills could use some sharpening. So for almost a year I've been 95% of the time painting outside and studying the great landscape painters past and present. In Dec. by some fluke I happened on to a forum where and Canadian man with a Dutch name, Johannes Vloothuis suddenly decided to share his 25 years of landscape painting for free in online demos and webinars, His genius in my opinion is his ability to distill into very pithy phrases you can't forget, about 100 pricipals of what makes landscape, or any painting work. You can find all the info an sessions he's teaching all online, so I never left home and recieived a college education on landscape, He lectured up to 7 hours a day for 3 weeks, sort of downloaded everything he knows into our brains in one fell swoop. It was intense but it saved me thousands of hours of work by revealing the major "secrets of the pros"
all in one place without expensive workshops. He put most of that info on Wet Canvas here Wet Canvas Live
Landscape is a lifetime task, so my one year self appointed apprenticeship, just got me some basics to start with. Through the long year, I found a new passion for painting the sea, and now I want to put the birds and sea together. Here are some from the the days along the Sonoma Coast, mostly late in the day, and a couple from a local spot called Ellis Ponds, where mute swans nest, these were done from life just as I saw it happen...all Plein Air( outside on the spot) quickly in an hour or so.
all oil on canvas unless noted
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