MILES!!

Making this project was a lot of fun. I tried to give up on obsessing over details and instead I wanted to try and capture the colors and feelings of the image. I began with an underpainting to capture the gesture of the landscape. I think it worked well with helping to plan out the piece a little better, but not being a very realistic underpainting to allow for a more direct painting technique after. It also helped me plan out how to paint the clouds and which colors would g

Jeremy Gardiner is a contemporary artist from England. Gardiner works in many different materials, but his landscape paintings are his most well known pieces. Gardiner was born in West Germany in 1957, but later moved to Great Britain where he has pursued his artistic education and career. He received his bachelors in fine arts from Newcastle University, and later received his masters at the Royal College of Art. Living in the UK, much of Gardiner's work depicts natural scene

This project was kind of a bust for me. I scaled up, not to super large but to decently larger than I had painted before, and it came back to bite me. That isn't to say that I don't want to continue working on larger pieces, It just ended up that I needed a progress critique which I didn't want. My main issue is finding a balance between speed, craft, and detail. My main problem that caused me to go so slowly on this project was obsessing with getting every detail from the be