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Learn how to paint fog and mist as well as other transient effects. Full step by step oil painting tutorial for beginners.

Misty landscapes from Switzerland, Belgium and Madeira

The idea for my first series of paintings for 2021 came about when cleaning up my studio at the end of last year. I was filing away piles of source materials that had gathered on every surface and while doing that setting aside what caught my eye. One of those things was a print out of Mark Doty's poem 'fog suite' and another was a color chart of Benjamin Moore's trends for 2021. And those two things, combined with reflecting on some of the work I did over the past year that really resonated