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From a paint out session at the Plein Air Convention & Expo

What You Need to Paint Outdoors: The Beginner’s Guide

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Practical Perspective: 3 Ways to Show Point of View in a Painting

3 Ways to Show Perspective in a Landscape Painting

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Art School Live with Eric Rhoads - how to fix your painting

Why Your Paintings Look “Off” and How to Fix Them

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Plein Air Tips - Carrie Curran, painting the Indiana Dunes

18 Plein Air Tips for Beginners

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Painting exercise - Lyn Asselta, "Sky Study 1," pastel, 8 x 10 in.

Plein Air Practice: My Daily Painting Exercise

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John Hughes painting en plein air at Big Sur

7 Surprising Tricks for Painting en Plein Air

Cherie Dawn Haas -
How to: Painting composition with Dan Marshall

Step-by-Step: Edit the Landscape for Better Composition

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Laying with acrylics - Michele Usibelli, "Sunburst," 2020, acrylic, 12 x 9 in., Private collection, Plein air

Art Snippet: Why I Love to Layer

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Carla Bosch demonstrates how to use brush strokes, color choices, and shape placement to create perspective and depth in landscape paintings.

How to Create Perspective and Depth in a Landscape

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Landscape painting by Bill Davidson

Glow, Energy, Texture: How to Paint Landscapes Step by Step Demo

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simplifying shapes - Acrylic landscape by Georgia Mansur

Art Snippet: On Simplifying Your Shapes and Massing

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Painting composition lesson - This demo breaks down neatly into three masses, with the sky and snow forming two of them and the river and land elements combining into one abstract shape. One could think of the snow and sky as just one big mass with a dark overlay as well. (The final count is not as important as the act of seeing the shapes.)

Understanding Masses for a Strong Landscape Painting Composition

John Hughes -
Tiffanie Mang, "Maui Beachscape," 2025, gouache, 6 x 8 in., collection the artist, studio from plein air digital sketch

5 Ways Digital Tools Can Strengthen Your Plein Air Practice

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landscape painting - Michael Chesley Johnson, "Early Spring Day," 2019, oil, 11 x 14 in., Studio, Collection of the artist.

Refining and Finishing a Landscape Painting

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John Pototschnik: Keeping it Simple

5 Thoughts Every Artist Has

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Online art critiques - how to paint like Van Gogh

Can We Improve Van Gogh?

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#1. Image courtesy of Kathie Odom /

10-Minute Thumbnail Sketch Challenge: Lay of the Land

Cherie Dawn Haas -
how to paint landscapes en plein air

Free Lesson: How to Escalate Your Paintings

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Jennifer McChristian, “Bougainvillea Bloom,” 2018, oil on panel, 8 x 10 in., Collection the artist, Plein air

What Makes a Landscape Painting Work?

Bob Bahr -
John Hughes working on location / painting plein air

Painting Plein Air & in the Studio: Motivating Factors

John Hughes -
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