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Have you ever tried painting outdoors? Painting outdoors is challenging but really good fun, if you are a landscape painter that is wanting to quickly improve your painting skills then painting outdoors could really help you.

Painting outdoors teaches you to paint quickly as the light and weather conditions are always changing and it really helps you with colour mixing and understanding of tone as it really make you look at the landscape.

In this painting tutorial I will show you the step by step process of how I painted this mountain landscape, outdoors on location. The whole painting was done in one session and took about two hours to paint.

Continuing the theme of painting seascapes from the last blog and YouTube video I thought I’d show you how you can paint a breaking wave that looks dramatic and is full of light and atmosphere. 

Painting seascapes is fun especially when you create stormy scenes so in the blog post I’ll show you some tips and tricks to create light and drama in your seascape. Don’t forget the accompanying YouTube video on how to paint this art work, you can view the video which is at the bottom of this page.

I love to paint the sea, in fact, it’s one of my favourite things to paint! In this blog post, I will show you how to paint this dramatic seascape in five easy stages.

I love painting small art works, they are great especially if you are a beginner. You can paint them more quickly, they are good for practicing your painting techniques, they make great little paintings, they are easier to sell and you can use them for colour studies for bigger paintings.

In this tutorial I am going to show you how I painted this small studio painting of Mt Talbot and Mt Crosscut in New Zealand in five easy stages which includes:

Have you ever tried painting outdoors on location? Let me tell you it’s really good fun, it’s challenging but it gets you outside and it really improves your painting skills especially if you’re a studio painter. 

Recently I took my paints and easel on a little road trip to Fiordland National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. Fiordland is a very mountainous region of New Zealand and is perfect for painting outdoors on location which is also known as painting ‘en plein air’.

Painting seascapes is one of the subjects I love to paint most. Every so often I visit the island of Guernsey which is the place I was born. Guernsey has amazing coastline, dramatic cliffs and the wild Atlantic Sea, the island is located in the English Channel and is very inspiring for coastal scenes.

In this step by step painting demonstration I will show you how to paint this seascape of a little place called Port Soif, located in the west of Guernsey.

I love painting mountains, and one of the great things about living in New Zealand is plenty of them to paint! One of my favourite mountains to paint in New Zealand are Mt Talbot and Mt Crosscut, located in the Fiordland region of the south island.

In this step-by-step painting tutorial, I will show you how to paint a serene mountain valley. Suitable for oils and acrylics.

This painting was inspired by an area called Dalefield which is located in the Wakatipu Basin, just outside of Queenstown, New Zealand. I frequently come to this area to paint as there are so many subjects to capture on canvas including trees, fields, mountains and animals.

I came here to paint in March the day after we’d had a cold spell of weather that left snow on the mountains. Given that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere the seasons are reversed and so February is a summer month. Anyway I thought it would make for an interesting painting with trees and fields juxtaposed against some snowy mountains.