Painting Landscapes is all about knowing what to keep in the landscape and what not to paint.
If you want every detail, take a photograph and copy it exactly, or better still, get a photograph framed. You can buy
many different styles of framed photographs today that are perfectly wonderful.... You may like to consider some of the landscapes
from Art.com... including some of my photographs....
A real landscape painting is something special, and it is here that the artist can put his feeling and skill into creating
something that the camera may not be able to do in the same way.
Landscapes are not flat and simply green. The skill is in the mixing and the matching and in creating individual differences
within each item. Consider the detail of Constable, the energy of Van Gogh, and consider the planes of Cezanne and you have
an entire spectrum to create within. It is he artist who decides what is being represented and in what way.
Experiment and take the time to try different ways of representing something. A look at the artists diaries will give
you an insight into how great artists experimented, trialled, designed and created their works.
Your eye is the viewfinder that selects what is going to be represented. Let your eye and your heart dictate what you
intend to paint.
