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Good job. 😊

I like how you transform a landscape in to being radiant

Next time, turn off the music when you start talking

It was looking rather garish all along, but you somehow pulled it off in the end, creating a painting with excellent and harmonious tonalities.

I loveee watching the process wow. Thanks

Like the video but the music is too distracting.

Very nice with no background music. Love the painting.

The background music distracts from your dialog. Bad audio ruins a good video.

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Great videos. Keep it up!

Lydia, been a while since I painted there but you remind me, I need to get back. Good one! Been doing many small 6x8's, 8x10's, in studio from my Sedona photos, this hot summer; but want to get some more plein airs done there too, again. I'm in Oro Valley, not that far away! And I don't do enough sky paintings, except when I was in Hawaii, LOL. Cuz you simply Must do them there, ...of course. :D BTW, just wondering, are you in a gallery there? I was shocked last time I was there that not that many local galleries feature the beautiful realistic landscapes of the area, like you paint; but rather a lot of weird, "spiritual stuff" paintings and sculptures, and of course tons of jewelry, instead. Have you noticed that too? Cheers!! : )

Wow, such a beautiful painting, thanks for discussing the background and showing us how you do it, lovely location

I did enjoy the instruction. Just a question though, when you were in instructional classes did the teacher/prof play music at about the same volume while she was instructing? I don't ever remember that happening in a formal class. Distracting for me, but probably just me. Cheers!

i love this well done, il be out tomorrow over here in france see what i can find

Beautiful!!!

Good job. 😊

I love how freely you share your process Lydia! Beautiful and inspiring as always!

NIce one...!

All the best from Australia 🦘

Painting is not the hardest thing. Selling is the hardest thing.

Beautiful work❤

I always paint from farback to nearfront, as in real life, makes more sense to me and omits filling in all the block,

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I really enjoyed watching your tutorials! Plus your plain desert painting. Keep up your excellent work.

Good job, great location, I'm doing many of the area now too, from photos I took when plein airing there a few years ago, near bell rock etc.. Nice you held back on the saturation of the sun light on rock. it's a "rookie mistake" to overdo stuff in the background of a painting since it is a painting and not a photograph, so you need to have some depth in it. Stuff in the distance that is too bright messes up the depth and makes the entire painting look too "flat", you avoided that, good one! One thing, nice to have a small break in the foreground trees to provide a lead in through the scene.

Very nice. I especially lie how you approached the sky.

Beautiful!!Thanks for sharing!

you really captured the feeling .....nice job thank you

😮❤ dang I wanna paint like you

Can you tell me what colors of paint that you use to achieve these colors? I am really struggling with color mixing to get the colors that I want, especially to hilite where the sun hits the rocks.

Looks great!

Values were really well done, same with saturations showing atmosphere. Why didnt you push the bright orange on the very background hill, just curious, it works great the way it is. And the foreground grasses are beautiful and I like them how you did it. A lot of folks would overemphasize the light as being the only important component of the composition and would have maybe taken the grasses a shade darker, maybe two shades darker, just to keep the lights and darks totally separate. But the greens to mix are gorgeous, and I like the more realistic portrayal, speaks to the energy of Sedona -John

heart, love the sky explanation

The light as it hits is beautiful

This looks great. I learned a lot from watching it (painting the intensity of the rocks was super hard for me when I was in Sedona in April). Couple quick questions to help me please... 1) Can you show how you like to mix your greens sometime? 2) Can you push the top layer of the teapot to be more cad yellow-ish (maybe just desaturating with a warm white, pushing the value, and pushing towards yellow more that way?). I dunno, just brainstorming on things I might try in my own version of this place. 3) I think the temperature shift here of the light is perfect. The light on the clouds is not too yellow, so suggests a midday sun that's cooler, and the same cool light is obvious on how the highlights on the red portions of the cliffs is mostly lightened with a cool ivory white and only a little cad yellow too. Awesome. 4) Would you show a slowed down video of how you paint just a single tower from start to finish, including all the last hightlights added? I want to learn how to make them so voluminous (great use of color mods to create form) -john.on.the.road

Gorgeous. Makes me want to go paint it! Was it super hot??

I'm learning by example. Plein air pushes you to paint fast. Its getting used to how to use my materials on site that slows me down. (noob). You have an appealing style of painting.

Stunning

Great composition, well done capturing a stunning landscape, even without a few necessities!

Excellent!!!!!!!!!🦝

Beautiful creation as always Lydia, thank you for sharing your process and grace!

Nice job!

I love this painting! Thank you for sharing your process.

I'm a watercolor artist but really loved your approach,mindset and the stages of this painting. Really turned out nice, not to mention that you didn't have the brushes and rags you needed. Painting is stunning.

This is so cool! You guys are like modern day hippies! The only thing missing are the flower-power paintings on the side of the van. What you have done with your ‘home’ is super amazing! I wish you a very happy life in your very special abode!

Beautiful painting! Love Arizona landscape 😍

Lydia, you are incredible!! I love to see you sharing your knowledge, grace and art expression with everyone. I've learned so much from you! Cheers on your journey <3

Beautiful painting! The landscapes in Arizona are amazing, I painted there last year and really enjoyed it. You've captured it really well here!

Backlit vegetation is so difficult to create depth in. I like your description of tone and temperature to creat it. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

It was very interesting to see 'three dimensional' shapes appear with two dimensional brushstrokes. I like how you what you are doing and why - it is clear and infomative. Great painting! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.