I can tell you what was happening on that day, who I was with, what the weather was like,” he says, pulling out study after study: a camp in the California redwoods, a Wind River pack trip, a Katahdin Lake canoe expedition, a winter day in Sweden, and on and on.’
Look at the difference in feeling between Clyde’s painting and the photo.
And Daniel Gerhartz says it’s harder to paint from photos than from life because so much information is missing in the photos.
I do paint a lot from photos, especially for the Master Oil Painting training videos.
When I paint from photos over an extended period of time, and don’t get outside to paint from life, I can feel myself begin to struggle and lose confidence.