Although I ended up having to drop it because of time constraints, I took Landscape Painting for a few weeks. I was excited to learn this better, because I want to eventually do paintings based on the photos I took during all the traveling I did in my 20s. All I got to was studies, but they’ve been kind of fun because I’ve been working in ink (just using a single 0.5 Topic Multiliner SP pen). Most weeks, we have field studies to do, and we’ve had to do several in ink and then one 8 x 10 inch value study in grayscale acrylic paint. We’ve also had to do some “master studies,” where we recreate famous paintings in ink or grayscale paint. Here are a handful of my ink field studies (these are from the first week):
![](https://kellypvincent.art/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/18-critique1.png)
![](https://kellypvincent.art/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/18-critique2.png)
![](https://kellypvincent.art/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/18-critique3.png)
These are all views around the downtown Renton library. Here are a couple of the master studies I did in the first week:
![](https://kellypvincent.art/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/18-master1-1024x770.jpg)
I’m not sure who the artist is in the above one, but the next one is a Monet:
![](https://kellypvincent.art/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/18-master2-1024x933.jpg)
The next week, I did some fields studies around my house. Here are a few:
![](https://kellypvincent.art/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/18-week2_1.png)
![](https://kellypvincent.art/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/18-week2_2.png)
![](https://kellypvincent.art/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/18-week2_4.png)
Then I also did a painted value study of the first one of these, which came out like this:
![](https://kellypvincent.art/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/18-valuestudy-1024x826.jpg)
That’s as far as I got. I’m going to have to retake the class in the fall, so I’ll actually get to the color studies then. But I enjoyed these so far. But it’s not easy, for sure.