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FOStop trying to paint your landscapes exactly the way they look in your photos. That was my biggest problem for a long time. I treated landscape painting like it was a copying exercise, and no matter how accurate I tried to be, the paintings never quite worked.
What finally changed everything for me was realizing that landscape painting is a translation process, not a copying process. You have to interpret what is in front of you and shape it into something that actually works as a painting. In this painting, I changed quite a bit from the original photo to make the scene stronger.
A famous landscape painter once said that God did not create perfect compositions in nature for lousy artists. Meaning it is our job as painters to compose the scene so it translates well onto the canvas. Once that idea clicked for me, everything started to fall into place and landscape painting became far less confusing.
If you want to see how I approached this painting and many others, you can find this one inside PaintCoach Studio under the name Delta Lake. You can try PaintCoach Studio free for seven days. Just comment studio43 below and I will DM you the link.
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