How to Paint Trees and Fields En Plein Air

How to Paint Trees and Fields En Plein Air

Why Paint Outdoors?

Painting outdoors can really help to improve your painting skills as it makes you look at the landscape you are painting. It will help you to get a better understanding of tones and values in the landscape as well as the chroma of the various colour. Most importantly, plein air painting teaches you to paint quickly as the light and weather conditions are changing and it will give you more confidence in your painting especially in the studio.

How to Paint a Mountain Lake Sunset

How to Paint a Mountain Lake Sunset

In this painting tutorial I will show you how to paint a mountain lake sunset inspired by Lake Wanaka in New Zealand. This painting features autumn trees, mountains, a lake and the evening sunset as it peers through the clouds.

Throughout this painting tutorial I give you tips on painting autumn colours, sunsets and clouds as well as how to create colour harmony.

How to Paint a Mountain Landscape – Tips for Painting Water and Distant Mountains

How to Paint a Mountain Landscape – Tips for Painting Water and Distant Mountains

In this painting tutorial I’m going to show you how to paint a landscape with a sparkling mountain stream as depicted in the painting above. This painting was inspired by the rugged landscape in southern New Zealand.

I painted this art work in oils but you could also use acrylics instead.

How to Paint a Rural Landscape

How to Paint a Rural Landscape

In this painting tutorial I show you how to paint a landscape as featured in the image above. This painting is inspired by a rural area in southern New Zealand. This painting features a rural landscape at the end of summer where the fields and hills are dry, the grass is yellow and the trees are casting shadows in the soft evening light. All good ingredients for a landscape painting.

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