We started outdoors with plain air painting as one way of doing a one session painting. I have some samples here. This is near Sedona out in Boyton Canyon, a one session painting. This is a five by seven format. Very small, portable. This is a set of spires near Sedona, and this is another one session oil painting. And another Sedona view, one session painting. So I talked about some of the advantages of doing a one session painting in general, which, part of which is that you're able to do a painting like you would do a drawing, in other words, a painting can become a big grand affair, and it can demand more and more and more, especially on a large scale. Doing a one session painting is more like doing a drawing. More like, you're going to finish it now, so it's about the moment. Another kind of one session painting would be a still life, and I'll show you how to set up something like this to get dramatic lighting, a couple, an onion and an onion skin there. Two apples, one cut in half. This one's onion and grapes. These are kind of in a way traditional still life paintings of food in a small scale, something like that might be sellable. We're going to now take a look at a way of setting that up in an advantageous lighting situation. This is a different kind of painting done from a photograph. Working from photography gives you the possibility of doing something that's very candid, doing a travel scene, doing something that you can really only catch with photography, and then re-looking at it in terms of painting. One of the neat things about that is that you'll be surprised. What will carry over into a painting? What will work? This is a very spontaneously taken photograph of my daughter shopping in Athens, and it worked out great as a little painting. So she's the one in the orange dress. So now I'm going to show you how to set up still life as one of the options.
