Painting out side from nature -or “plain air” is hard! This painting was done in Malibu and took about 2 hours. The hardest part is knowing what to paint. In a photo it’s obvious where the picture starts and ends- when you are painting from life there are no borders. A fun lesson I learned was that I could move objects or change the colors- to improve on nature. The palm tree in my painting was really way off to my left- the mountain range was more orange but adding blue/ purple showed that they were farther off into the distance.
Not a bad way to spend an afternoon!