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Plein air: The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Why paint plein air? The experience of painting from life versus painting from photos, or imagination is vastly different. Whether this process effects the resulting artwork, positively or negatively is for you to decide.

Even before the Impressionists, people drew using reference photographs. Today only a small percentage of people draw and paint from life, though there seems to be a renewed interest in this process.

Starting a pastel, looking across Lake Ontario, towards Hamilton’s industrial Centre.

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