Landscape Exercise #1

In preparation for an upcoming project, i'm starting a series of painting exercises to help improve my skills.

Here's an example of two VERY quick landscape paintings I did tonight (each taking about 15-20 minutes). The main goal with these is to not stress and not focus on too much detail. I'm mainly trying to get over my fear of landscape painting and build a sort of "color memory" for this type of subject matter.

(you can see the reference photo in the top right)

This is the first time i've tried painting landscapes in a loooooooooong time so they are not that great, but i'm hoping to improve!

P.S. these were all done in photoshop CS5

-Jason