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Rain or Shine

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Motivate Yourself With 'Projects'

When you create a 'project' for yourself, it's easier to go out, and be motivated to paint 'Rain or Shine', thus painting a lot and having a great time doing so.

There's no "What will I do today, will I paint something somewhere today?", because you have clear (numbered/timed?) goals.

I wanted to paint cows several weeks in a row during the first run of '50-Days-Pleinair Mastery'. All weather delivers, yes, no need to wait for 'perfect' circumstances because you'll miss out on a lot. It was a rainy day. Sometimes a grey sky can make an otherwise-skipped-over-view beautiful.

Here the greens sing because of the sky connecting to the far away, because of those values coming so close.
I think this shows also how movement is important in a painting, gained with a brush mostly I think. Knife and brush. The best combo. All parts intertwine.

LSP02-2022 Landscape Pleinair 'Rain or Shine'
oil on canvas, 24x30 cm | 9.6" x 11.8" - available
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Cold! Still Spring here. Even the winter coat didn't do it, frozen fingers.
But yes, persist. Pursuit. Proceed. Finish : )

Palette

I have a vlog episode about painting cows here

If you're interested in learning about how I create my Cows/Landscape Paintings, I've created an online painting course 'Painting Landscapes With Cows' ► find it here
Recently I also added an IN THE FIELD class (in Holland) for artists who want to paint the landscape + cows from life ► find this here