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Yesterday I did both of these from life in succession. Painting from life, the scene as this, changes in seconds. So I rely on memory and stick with it. I find when painting from life it’s difficult to experiment. But I believe painting plein air is a learning process to see the landscape in all its nuances that we cannot see in a photo. But if we learn what that means, we can apply our knowledge to painting anywhere and make the painting seem to be painted from life. I think, Bongart said that the best paintings are done from sketches or from memory. Of course, that’s not that easy to do.