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As the autumn season descends, we in the North Peace are experiencing a particularly massive change. Site C Dam is filling. Nature is an indomitable artist, and beauty can be seen amidst the change from river to reservoir. The swelling reservoir is framed by soft, golden grass, green sage, luminescent yellow aspen, and chokecherry red. It bids us to pick up our sketchbooks and canvases and perch ourselves over the Peace to do plein air art.
This leads me to a great book: Plein Air Techniques For Artists: Principles and Methods for Painting in Natural Light (Erickson, Aimee; 2023). This book is filled with lots of accessible practice and beautiful examples from many artists. As a finale, the author includes two summary pages of perspective principles and composition tips. A helpful checklist as you analyze your own work.

Please click on the link below to see the book.

https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/plein-air-techniques-for-artists-principles-and-methods-for-painting-in-natural-light/9780760379356.html