Spring Morning, Lake Wakatipu - Painted Outdoors - Art and Photography

It's been another glorious day here in Queenstown, New Zealand and another perfect day for painting outdoors (en plein air).

I gathered up my paints, brushes and pochade box easel and headed down to the lake front to paint the view.

This is the art work I have painted today. In this blog post I'll show you how I created this art work.

Spring Morning, Lake Wakatipu, 200mm x 330mm, oil on canvas panel, painted en plein air.

There is nothing like painting outdoors and if you're a studio painter like me it's great to get outside and paint. You learn so much from painting outside and for me I feel plein air painting has improved my work dramatically.

This was the view I painted today which looks towards the Remarkables mountains and Kelvin Heights.

I started off by sketching the scene loosely on a canvas panel I had prepared earlier.

I always start by painting the sky so I can gauge the tonality of the rest of my painting from this. After that I immediately paint my shadows. Once I have my dark tones established it doesn't matter if the light changes.

Later on as I was painting the light changed and there were more highlights on the Remarkables Mountains. It didn't matter that the light had changed as I had my dark tones established.

After establishing my dark tones I paint the highlights of the trees. I use my most saturated colour in the foreground to achieve atmospheric depth in my painting.

This photo was taken a couple of hours later and you can see how the light has changed especially as the mountains are now bathed in sunlight.

My finished painting.

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