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This one was a lot of fun. I tried to do something different today and I think it really helped. I mentioned in previous posts that I was working back to front to finish the piece but this time around I did it in several passes. I started first with simply laying down basic color from back to front through the image, then went over it three times to add in additional detail. I feel like it helped me to work more quickly and that helps when painting something like this, when you just work painstakingly slow on one part it becomes a joyless slog. This kept it fun throughout, which is always a good thing. The color's probably what I'm most proud of in this piece, it's a really great illustration of how atmospheric perspective effects color. Here's the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, check back tomorrow for another update! Thanks for stopping by!

Hey everyone! Here's today's update!

I took my time again on today's piece, luckily in the past few days I've had extra time to take! This one was done in just about an hour, have a look!

I really enjoyed painting in all of the detail in the sand dune in the background, that was probably the most fun part of this piece. The tree gave me a little trouble because it was a lot of detail to squeeze into a small space. Looking at this with the original image below it I realize I should have pushed the contrast in the foreground just a little bit more, but I'm really happy with the overall placement of the elements in the scene so that's a plus! Here's the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, check back again tomorrow for another update!

Hey there everyone! Here's today's update.

I decided to take a little more time on today's piece because this particular picture was extremely beautiful, there was no way I was going to do it justice in half an hour. Have a look.

This has probably been my favorite piece to paint so far, I took my time and really enjoyed the experience. This one clocks in at just under an hour. Here's the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

Well that's all for today, see you tomorrow!

Hey there everyone! Here's today's update!

Like yesterday's, this one was a bit tough too. Take a look.

There's a lot of stuff going on, I actually had to redraw my outline sketch because I didn't get it quite right the first time. I went over my time limit by about 15 minutes today. I'm kinda happy with the end result. The horizon's a little too high, and some of the elements aren't in the right place (mostly in the foreground), but I'm happy I got it finished and have kept my streak going! Tomorrow I've got to focus more on getting all of the forms where they're supposed to be, and rendering everything accurately. I think this piece suffered from way too much guess-work on my part. Anyway, here's the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, see you again tomorrow!

Hey there everyone! Here's today's update!

Today's image is courtesy of a friend as well, have a look.

This one was kinda hard, and I definitely went over my goal of 30:00 minutes (by 17:39), but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. I've got a couple of issues with position and scale, the shoreline on the image appears a bit rounder. The rock nearest to the viewer should be pushed back a bit and the rocks in the background should be a bit smaller, but overall I'm really happy with this. There was a lot of neat color to paint, and laying out the image was pretty fun. Here's the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, see you again tomorrow!

Hey there everyone! Here's today's update!

A friend of mine sent along a link to a photo that I had to use for today's painting. This is what I came up with.

 Got this one done in 30 minutes, super happy with how it turned out. Looking at it here the slope of the most illuminated hill's a little steeper in my version, but the rest of it turned out great. I could have added a bit more contrast in the grass, but I ran out of time. Here's the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, see you here again tomorrow!

Hey there everyone! Here's today's update.

I found this image online and decided it'd be perfect for today's painting, have a look.

This one was really fun to do, it's not a terribly complicated landscape so that left me with a lot of time to spend on getting those colors right. I must confess I spent about 25 of my 29:59 minutes painting in the trees, then the last 4 copying and flipping the image and applying a blur filter. I cheated a little there (since I really want to hand paint everything in these), but I don't think it was too bad. Here's the original for comparison.

I claim no ownership of this image, it was used as a reference for the study above.

That's all for today, see you here again tomorrow!