Artists & Illustrators

The bigger picture

IN THIS LAST FEATURE I want to bring all the subjects together from the previous four in the series to create a larger oil painting.

The more we draw and paint outside, the more fluent we become at translating nature and the more confident we become with our decision-making.

We don’t always have the time or means to bring our oil paintings with us and set up for a long project, but the small drawings, value and colour note studies can give us the information we need to compose a larger painting.

The steps in this series laid out sequentially the process by which we can build up a landscape, making it simpler when we approach and compose a

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