Welcome to Studypainting.com. This site will present ideas and content about learning to paint and improving your painting skills. This site is the complement to my other site, studydrawing.com. The plan is for this site to become a resource for a broad audience interested in painting skills. For now, I will be focusing and blogging about my own process of reviving my practice of landscape and Plein-Air painting.

Why do I like plein-air painting? It is the street-fighting of painting. 

To explain what I mean by this I'm going to exaggerate things a bit. This post is tongue-in-cheek to just make my point.

Do you know how to get better at painting? Do you have a confident grasp on how to really move the needle on improving your own skills?

I don't know the ultimate answer, but I can share what I'm doing for myself to improve my outdoor painting. I've heard all the standard pieces of advice on how to learn and get better. They usually involve platitudes about lots of practicing, studying, observing, and accepting mistakes. I find all this unsatisfying. I need a more structured approach.

In my previous post I referenced the metaphor of an engine overhaul. With this blog and using the metaphor, I want to take apart pieces of the engine of my understanding of painting, examine them, clean off any gathered gunk or dirt, and put them back together for a stronger foundation of understanding as I work on my painting skills.