Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. - Kahlil Gibran
Trying to get out to field sketch a lot more this spring and summer. Nothing really beats learning lessons when you paint from life. You don't have to be a talented or even accomplished Artist to get out there and give things a try.
Set your expectations appropriately and remember not to be hard on yourself if your drawings and paintings aren't masterpieces. Start with some simple thumbnail sketches and don't worry about details.
When I sketch in the field, I don't worry about how well I paint or draw as much as I think about how much I am learning from the experience. Here is a very short video of a gouache painting I did recently. It's far from perfect, but I learned a LOT in the work.
I recently added Memberships to my channel and I'm adding new content regularly. I hope you'll consider becoming a member and if you do just visit my YouTube channel and hit the join button. https://www.youtube.com/@owingsart/membership
I'm hoping to generate enough support so I can keep adding content and spending time investing/growing the channel. I'm going to retire from my day job soon and hoping that I can create some income. I've had the channel for more than 15 years and posted almost 400 videos over that time. Now I'm devoting more time, effort and money into making the channel even better.
There, that's my pitch. :-)