[Timothy C. Tyler]

Have you ever noticed that people that paint very nice stills or figures or interiors or portraits often paint odd landscapes. The reverse is often true. Artists that make great sunlit landscapes can't even do a portrait. This has gone on for centuries.

Those folks like Richard Schmid and Dan Gerhartz that paint from life-stuff is stuff and all their work is convincing. I love much of Daniel Graves work but find his landscapes a bit weird in tone and lacking in light. If landscapes don't have light or depth they seldom work.

I suspect studio folks don't get outside enough.