Problems when Painting Outdoors over Long Periods - No. 81

Having success painting in changeable circumstances is difficult but there are ways to work through them and achieve reasonable results. Some of the thinking involved is discussed here.

QUESTION: Certain paintings by J. Sargent that where painted out doors over a long period of time (carnation, lily lily rose for example as described by Charteris) must pose many more difficulties than working from spots, effects and nature as it appears in a steady north light of a studio.RICHARD