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I apologize for taking so long to post another article. Amazing how life can get away from you.

In the past I have posted about some of my favorite landscape painters, Clyde Aspevig, Ray Roberts, and Len Chmiel, and what I have learned from them. (Aspevig – to reposition landscape elements; Roberts – to group values into strong shapes; Chmiel – to take chances with composition).

I also mentioned several others - Matt Smith, Josh Elliot, John Taft, Mark Haworth, Peter Holbrook, Arturo Chavez, Glen Dean and Kathryn Stats. I should add to this list, John Moyers, and then note that both John Moyers and Glen Dean have really transitioned into figurative painters rather than mostly landscape painters. Of course, there are often landscape components in their figurative works. I pulled some older paintings for both of them which are mostly or completely landscape works. (Fortunately, I’ve saved a bunch of older works to Pinterest over the years.)

Here are the works for John Moyers:

Here are the works for Glen Dean.

You can see why these two artists still belong in my stable of favorite landscape painters, and I wish that they did a few more landscapes now and then.

But the rest of my posting here will be about JOSH ELLIOT, whom I’ve grown to really appreciate. I think that in the time I’ve watched his work (15 years or so), he’s grown to be a top tier painter.

As I’ve posted in the past, the truly great artists have no weaknesses. They have great composition, values, colors, drafting, brushwork, and edges. These are the areas which are the foundation in painting. I believe that John Elliot has no weaknesses in any of these areas. Here are some of my favorite paintings by him. See what you think:

Josh Elliot - Shiprock, Shadows, and Shelter

You will note that he paints landscapes from all over the West and is pretty successful at a number of different types.

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