Move It!

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Plein air painting is not for the meek. There are many challenges to working outdoors and those challenges take time to master. For instance, Nature doesn’t often supply us with the perfect arrangement of landscape elements, so one has to be able to design or redesign an interesting composition on the spot. This requires the ability to visualize the best arrangement and then either “borrow” the objects which are in view and move them around on the canvas, or delete those elements which don’t fit. Easier said than done, often.

Ann Spotting a Placement A Much Better Arrangement