I admire the stylized landscape art of Phyllis Shafer. Here, I used one of my own photos and tried to use her style in painting it. Don’t know if I’ll try the style again, but I wanted to try it. She makes it look so easy! 
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Well done!
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Looks like my back yard.
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That looks so nice!
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The art is stunning and the colors make me feel relaxed
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A masterpiece landscape. Sky, foreground and first plane, all masterly done!
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Thanks you guys! But I feel most of the credit belongs to Ms. Shafer, since I imitated her style. Is that even a thing? Using someone else’s style to create your own art? 
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Yup, it’s a thing. Something to help others learn new things. 
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Here is my reference photo. And a link to Phyllis Shafer’s art page, if you’re interested in seeing her beautiful landscapes.
Phyllis Shafer – Oil Paintings
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You’ve done very well to use her style. Beautiful.
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what brush did you use for the texture of the flower stem? the one with the opacity texture. Your work always amazed me.
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I wonder if Ms. Shafer actually painted outside. “Plein air” typically denotes painting on location, and she calls herself a plein air artist. If that’s the case, then her style feels difficult to achieve on location… unless she did multiple sessions.
EDIT: never mind, saw a pic of her actually painting on location… that answered my question.
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Yes, she typically paints plein air. Definitely seems like it would be difficult to paint so stylized in a plein air setting. I did see a short clip of her painting outside and she started with rough large shapes and colors first, which kinda surprised me.
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Really pleasing piece to look at
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Nice! Well done.
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Unfortunately I had to go to the hospital this morning, everyone is ok, and one of the departments had about ten of her paintings. The funny thing was that I had looked at these pictures on multiple different occasions and was always floored by them, but I now know the artist, thanks.
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@Sineater Hope you are ok!
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Everyone is healthy, just a checkup.
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@rosa Sorry for the delay in answering your question. I just saw this for some reason Lol . Do you mean the stems in the foreground flowers, right below the yellow flower heads?
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yes the stem, the texture is very interesting