This painting is from a challenge on
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/ . This is actually my first landscape. I have tried a few times to paint landscapes but that was while standing outside instead of using a photo. It was a swarm of some kind of bugs that wouldn't leave me alone or the sun beating down on me while sweat dripped down my face that made me quit. I am okay with using a photo. In my younger, more strongly opinionated days I used to argue that using a photo was cheating because you weren't out there on feeling the wind on your face. I apologize to those that I argued with. I started using photos for my dog paintings about 4 or 5 yrs ago.
