Exercise: Drawing cloud formations

This is as difficult as drawing animals.  You just get set up and draw a few squiggles for the outline, and then look up again only to find the whole thing has moved.  I need to try again on a very still day!

The next exercise was plotting space through composition and structure.  I think in my drawing I have achieved a foreground, middle ground and  background, but I did have difficulty in varying the tone sufficiently to convey the feeling of distance in the landscape.

Exercise: 360 Degree Studies

This exercise was designed to show how the landscape changes just by shifting your viewpoint slightly.  Here is my attempt at four 15 minute sketches.

Research Point - Different artists' depictions of landscape

I have started by looking at Claude Lorrain (1604-1682).  He was a landscape artist at a time when landscape was not seen to be a subject in its own right, and also there was no market for paintings whose subjects were merely landscapes.
Some of his landscape paintings have small scale details in them, such as figures.  These seem only to serve as giving the painting a sense of scale and don't seem as important as the grand landscapes that surround them.
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  Pastoral landscape

Another artist I looked at is Albrecht Durer (1471-1528).

These are two of his very different depictions of landscapes.

  Castle Court (Innsbruck)

 Pond In The Woods

These are two impressionist paintings by Camille Pissarro.

  Lordship Lane Station   Jallais Hill at Pontoise (1867)

This is an industrial landscape by LS Lowry.  A riverbank (1947) 

And, this is something completely different.  A painting by Australian artist Fred Williams (1927-1982)
 Landscape with Goose 1974