Rolling Hills Landscape

I told myself that over my winter break I would try and do a (landscape) painting every day for the entire duration of the break -- so far I've only missed two days! Pretty cool in my opinion. And with each new painting I feel as though I'm learning something unique and developmental. I have like four paintings sitting around drying so once they're finished with that I'll upload them too. For now here is the day three(?) painting I did. Oil on canvas board 9x12. 30-40 minutes max. 

(Oh, and the painting a few posts ago with the mountain and clouds is also part of this painting-a-day thing.)

Sketchbook Pages

Some more sketches. Many of these are quick copies of famous paintings etc. done in class slide shows or from books I find in the Library. I have to admit that this may be my new favorite thing to do - that is - find art books in the library stacks and copy the images I like, I find that this may ultimately help me to understand value better and practice composition from the masters. Enjoy.