The Journey of Painting Landscapes: Five Days of Improvement

🌳I discovered that painting landscapes is a challenge for me, but I am determined to improve.

🎨Through experimentation and practice, I learned that blocking in colors and focusing on values is essential to create depth and realism in landscapes.

🖌️Studying tutorials and observing other artists' techniques helped me gain insights and improve my painting skills.

🌿Understanding the importance of total range and color saturation allowed me to create more realistic and visually pleasing landscapes.

🌅Although I have made progress, I recognize that there is always room for improvement, and I am excited to continue honing my skills.

Why did you choose to focus on painting landscapes?

—I wanted to challenge myself and expand my painting skills to include landscapes, as I found them to be a difficult subject for me.

How did you learn to improve your landscape painting skills?

—I experimented with different techniques, watched tutorials, and studied other artists' work to gain insights and learn new approaches.

What were the key learnings from your five-day experiment?

—I learned the importance of blocking in colors, focusing on values, and understanding total range and color saturation to create more realistic landscapes.

Do you feel satisfied with your progress so far?

—While I have made progress, I believe there is always room for improvement, and I am excited to continue practicing and refining my landscape painting skills.

What are your future goals in landscape painting?

—I aspire to create more complex and visually stunning landscape paintings, capturing the beauty and essence of nature in my artwork.

00:00Introduction to the five-day experiment of painting landscapes.

01:13Choosing a reference photo and facing the challenges of painting landscapes.

03:41Observing improvements and recognizing the areas that need more work in day one's painting.

05:51Learning from tutorials and studying other artists' techniques to gain insights and improve painting skills.

07:19Reflecting on progress made after day three's painting and striving for realism and depth.

09:56Day five's painting, focusing on total range and color saturation for more realistic landscapes.