Landscape painting lesson

5 landscape painting tips for beginners! Learn valuable pieces of advice you can apply when you next head outside to paint.

In this painting tutorial I am going to share some tips for painting beautiful trees and show you the step by step process of how I created the art work pictured above.

In this tutorial, I walk you through my painting techniques on how to paint water using oils in a landscape painting inspired by a river in southern New Zealand.

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

For me, even a simple landscape painting needs to have three basic elements. A foreground, midground and background. How those three elements are handled will

Quite a number of years ago, I came across John F. Carlson’s book Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting. In this book he outlines his Theory of Angles. I light bulb went off in my head. I’d always been focused on […]

Coming up with ways to improve and find inspiration for new landscape painting ideas for beginners can be hard... I can remember one of my first outdoor painting ventures when learning to paint in Italy, it was a wondrous feeling being able to paint outside and study the landscape... but what to study when you're not in Italy is the question;) Here are several ideas to start working on your landscape paintings where you are at!