I'm having a wonderful time with my Thursday paint-a-longs and it seems to be picking up more and more people watching as time goes on. Last week however I had some technical difficulties as I bought a new and improved soundboard but hadn't really read the directions so the beginning of the paint-a-long on Thursday was a disaster. Hopefully, I will get a chance to read the directions this week so we can get you some amazing sound quality. You may just want to keep your fingers crossed for me. See below for this week's Thursday evening demo/paint-a-long.

Well, I'm sorry to say that it looks like the pandemic has taken away another one of my workshops. My Duluth Art Institute 3 day workshop on October 22, 23, and 24.has been canceled! If you signed up and paid, they assured me that you will all be getting your money returned. Sorry I won't get to teach you but keep on checking out my Thursday paint-a-longs. See This week's paint-a-long HERE

 

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  Summer is over and only now do I realize how green all the foliage and landscapes were when one now starts to see all the beautiful fall colors. Then I start thinking to myself why do I even bother painting all that green in the summer when the trees are 1000 times more beautiful in their fall colors. 

Maybe this is just me but in the summer there is just way to much green when painting landscapes and this has to be one of the hardest colors to paint into a scene. Now when I paint a fall landscape everything is just so colorful and everywhere you look the colors of autumn are so different and beautiful.

This doesn't mean you should never paint a summer landscape again, I just think you have to take every scene you paint and try to make it the coolest and most beautiful scene you can. Then there are also the spring and winter landscapes, and they too are usually much nicer than a summer landscape. 

Below I picked out the 4 seasons in a landscape location to show you how usually the least favored is the summer scene. 

When it comes to other types of scenery in the summer like cityscapes or water scenes the greens don't play as much a role in them so I say paint more city and water scenes in the summer. If you don't have a choice and you have to paint a green landscape then at least make sure you paint in the early morning or late afternoon to get a great mood from that time of day!
David