My last post before the group closes. On the Camino Primativo in 2017 enroute to Lugo we met Father Michelle, a Catholic priest in his 80's. Thanks Sam for the start your postings on you tube and in Skool that you have given me through your inspirations and organised approach to landscape painting. Much appreciated.

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that I'll be closing this community shortly. I've been running this free community for over two years, and I'm grateful to everyone who's been part of it. Alongside this, I've been teaching inside Sam's Landscape Painting School, where a few months ago I extended the live painting classes to a full two hours every Monday NZ time (Sunday USA) on Zoom. Moving forward, I want to focus all my energy on Sam's Landscape Painting School and the students within it. If you've been thinking about joining, now is a great time — right now there's a FREE 7-day trial available until Monday 25th May. You can find out more here: https://go.samuelearp.com/landscape-painting-school If you've previously purchased any products or membership access through this group, I'll be reaching out to you personally with something special. Thanks for being part of this community. I hope to see some of you inside Sam's Landscape Painting School. Happy painting Sam

I thought I would share a free colour mixing hack I have discovered in the last couple of weeks. If you are having trouble matching a colour from a reference photo with the colour you mix on your pallet, and you want to try mixing a close match without wasting expensive paints or too much trial and error this may help. I started painting in November last year using acrylics after watching some of Sam’s painting tutorials on YouTube. I soon discovered how easy it is to mix colours that looked nothing like the colour I was trying to achieve. The subsequent trial and error process was a bit frustrating and wasting expensive pigment. Here is my solution: 1. I take a reference photo and copy it into powerpoint; 2. Create one or more rectangles beside the photo and use the eyedropper to fill each rectangle with a colour picked from the photo; 3. Open Microsoft Copilot; 4. Select one or more of the rectangles filled with the colour picked from the photo; 5. Copy and paste the rectangle into the Copilot “ask anything” box; 6. Type this instruction or something similar into the “ask anything” box alongside the coloured rectangle.. “how to mix the attached colour in acrylics using a mix of all or some colours ultramarine blue, titanium white, burnt sienna, yellow ochre, cadmium yellow light, quinacridone magenta, cobalt teal, alizarin crimson” 7. Push the enter button, and wait a few minutes; 8. The response you should get is a step by step colour mixing guide tailored to your specific colour swatch query as follows: Peter, this one is a light, clean, gently cool blue‑green — not turquoise, not sky blue, and not mint. It sits right between cobalt teal + white and a softened ultramarine mix, but without the strong green punch of teal or the violet bias of ultramarine. It’s a beautifully balanced, airy colour. Here’s the most reliable way to mix it from your palette. Understanding This Colour • Hue: blue with a slight green lean • Value: light–mid • Chroma: moderate (fresh but not intense)

Hey Artists Quick question for everyone: I'm working on something new related to painting trees, and I want to make sure I'm addressing the struggles you're actually dealing with. SO TELL ME: What's the biggest challenge you face when painting trees? Vote in the poll below 👇 (And feel free to add more details in the comments - I'm reading everything) Cheers. Sam