Loose oil painting landscape

Ken Auster continues to teach and leave his legacy. His teaching is a way which equates painting to just about everything else you do in your regular life. Click to read from Ken on the topic of painting progression.

American Impressionist, Romona Youngquist shares her inside secrets to 7 Steps to Create a Huge Landscape Painting

Julia Hetzel on Instagram: "I would say three things about my painting style: ✨ I like to paint loose ✨ I love natural colors (blues, greens, soft pinks, neutrals) ✨ I love texture. I strongly believe that “painting loose” stems from my background growing up painting with my grandmother. I started off structured, but as I gained more confidence as an artist I loosened up and allowed myself to just “feel” the painting. My draw towards using texture and natural colors comes from being an…

Since the day the late Brock Linehan asked me "What do you know for sure?", and I had trouble answering.

Distance Between Study by Sherrie Russ Levine, Oil, 14 x 11

In this painting tutorial I show you how to paint a landscape as featured in the image above. This painting is inspired by a rural area in southern New Zealand. This painting features a rural landscape at the end of summer where the fields and hills are dry, the grass is yellow and the trees are casting shadows in the soft evening light. All good ingredients for a landscape painting.

Isn’t always fascinating to see what is behind the top layer of a painting? Every time I look at an artist’s artwork I wonder what was the first mark on the surface? How many passes were made? Did the artist already have something in mind? Was it completely spontaneous and intuitive and built directly in the moment? Did the artist do preparatory sketches?

When you are creating landscape paintings, part of what draws you to a scene is the emotion you feel when you are in the moment. This is not always easy to replicate, but one way to carry that emotion in art is by using different types of brushwork.