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?

I have attached my latest painting, acrylic on canvas (400X300mm or 16X12inch) which is number 8 in a series of paintings I started in November 2025, when I started painting, that capture moments on the Camino Primativo in 2017. The location is Casa Meson Paradavella on 15 April 2017. My reference photo is on the left and my painting on the right. I am challenging myself with a larger canvas and more difficult subjects as well as with tonal values, hue and composition and depth and how to use a brush and which brush to use and so on and so on. The more I wrestle with the subject the more I actually observe in the original picture things I missed before. The picture is meaningful to me because of the memories it evokes. Thank you Sam for opening the door to this wonderful world of painting. Your online tutorials and methodology have unlocked a way of expressing myself that I may not have ventured into otherwise.

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.

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