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Karin, you say that you cannot paint landscapes. I would like to ask if you were sitting outdoors drawing or painting or working from a photo in the studio. Can you tell if it is the coloring or the vastness and wildness of the outdoors or perspective that throws you off? Painting nature is probably a specialty that requires a different spirit than portraiture and still-life work in a controlled environment.
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I have tried landscapes both outdoors and indoors. The problem until now has been composition, i.e., the organization of the painting. I had a lot of trouble seeing depth and objects located at various distances unify into underlying abstract patterns, values and shapes. For some goofy reason, it is easy for me to do this with portraits.
I have been working on this for the past few months and have done hundreds of little landscape studies. I'm finally getting it.