I don't copy masters paintings to learn, but I do like to try to paint an original in the style of other artists. This is my attempt at a Mike Hernandez style gouache painting complete with opera pink toning of the paper. Although it's done in Casein instead of gouache, they act and look very similar. My other goal was to do it in less than 2 hours because I think this will be my medium of choice for Plein Air painting going forward. 6"x8" Casein on 300lb watercolor paper.

this is a study on free canvas, which I learned to do before starting a job or just to study, I attend an online course at the first painting school here in Italy, I used ochre, cadmium yellow, alizarin, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, titanium white, thanks

Hi all, I wanted to share a landscape painting that I finished yesterday. Please let me know your thoughts. I feel it has a lot of mistakes with value and color.

After a few months I revisited my tooth painting, just wasn’t happy with it. If you recall , this was about a scout trip we took in the mountains and I wanted it as a present to my son. Although he is happy with it, I wasn’t, so I took it back to try something different. This first is the new painting. I tried to improve depth and increase contrast as well as darkening and putting some movement in the sky. Changed the composition a bit too. Any thoughts?

My latest, 9”x12” , planning on doing a larger size in the future of the same picture. This is a picture we took outside of Telluride ,Colorado on one of our vacations.