I love to paint outside. The visual challenge presented by a 360° view of wherever or whatever it is enables me to make choices that are crucial to how I express myself as an artist.
In the winter months the weather is generally too cold for me to work outside for any reasonable amount of time. I have tried creating landscape paintings from photos and screenshots but find the experience inhibiting in terms of key choices regarding which view to choose, focal point and composition. Even more critically, my camera never tells me as much as my eyes when it comes to colour.