Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24. Click on image to enlarge.

I apologize for the tardy post. My treatments have made weekly posts impossible. Also I only have a few paintings left to show. I have not done any work since probably January. The treatments were too brutal for me to even consider doing more paintings. Feeling a little better now.

Anyway...I did this landscape entirely from imagination. This was really just to practice (again) landscape techniques. Because it's all just made up, a work like this can be done relatively quickly. That is one of the best advantages of doing nature paintings; it doesn't matter if a tree is a little too far to the left, or a cloud is a little too far to the right. I just put things wherever they look good. Contrast this to doing someone's portrait; if you put their nose a little too far to the left, it will definitely get noticed!

So it's just random nature elements. Compared to a lot of my other work, I am relatively satisfied with this. Of course, this is not a work that you will contemplate for hours, it's just something done for fun.

Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24". Click on image to enlarge.

I did this landscape almost entirely from a photo from the internet. I wanted to practice some landscape techniques. The painting came out okay, but I thought it paled compared to the source photo. Well, that's why we practice; to try to get better, right? It's an image I would probably attempt again.

Incidentally, it's not really legal to copy someone else's image. It is acceptable to copy parts of it, or to combine parts of different images together, but the resulting work must be substantially different from the source image(s).

That said, art students have always outright copied the work of the great masters and others. What could be a better measure of your talent than to see if you could make an image just like a famous work? Obviously you can learn a lot by doing what the greats have done.

But again, this was done for practice, not for profit.