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What's Your Biggest Struggle With Landscape Painting?
Hey Artists I'd love to know what you're finding most challenging with your landscape painting right now. Vote below and drop a comment if you want to add anything, I read every one. Happy painting Sam
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93 members have voted
What's Your Biggest Struggle With Landscape Painting?
3 likes • 18d
Trying to get to the details too soon. I keep forgetting about good process.
Seascape.
Only my second painting so I’m an absolute beginner and will still be for a long time. Would therefore appreciate any feedback. I struggled with many things including mixing accurate colours and values to match the reference. Also struggled to keep the colour puddles contained to small areas on the glass palette as it was difficult to scrape the oil paint up from the surface of the glass with a palette knife and the paint kept spreading across a wider area as I tried to mix colours. So I was frustrated about several aspects but overall it was still a positive experience as at least I was painting!
Seascape.
1 like • 21d
@Eva Hartman HaHa, now I can’t un-see that elephant!
1 like • 20d
@Eva Hartman I said I can’t UN-see it, meaning when I look at the painting, the elephant is all I see!👍🏻
Birch trees.
I did this painting in acrylics over the winter.
Birch trees.
1 like • Mar 31
That's a very cool composition. Great job on the reflection of the trees. Nice painting!
What's Your Biggest Tree Painting Struggles?
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
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70 members have voted
What's Your Biggest Tree Painting Struggles?
1 like • Mar 13
@Samuel Earp I marked making them 3D, but that also applies to light & shadow, and mixing the right greens. Thanks!
Most recent painting
Here is my attempt to make this painting a little better. I worked on the creek bed edge so it wouldn’t be so straight and worked on the rocks a little more and made the tree in the foreground a little bigger. Did that help? Should I say “Done!” with this one?
Most recent painting
0 likes • Jan 29
Hi Cecilia, I think that you did a great job technically! Good use of color, good rendering of shapes, great perspective. The thing that stands out to me is the composition. You did a really good job of copying the picture, but the composition doesn't make for a great painting because there is no 'eye-flow' - the trees in the foreground stop your eye from following the riverbed which seems to be the point of interest. You might strengthen the tree in the foreground (right) and make it a painting of the tree, or you could remove the center tree altogether and show more of the river. This is something I've been working on too because great photographs don't always make great paintings.
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Rob Fuller
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@rob-fuller-6836
I am a retired university professor looking to improve my landscape painting. I work in both oils and acrylics, but so far only in the studio.

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