Mike Hernandez, gouache plein air painting at Carmel River Beach

Man, the only thing missing was a van.

Unless you've done plein air, it's hard to understand the elemental battle that an artist fights on every piece. Incredible that this was the result! 

Nicely done, as always. Tell me though, Artless, does he consider these "finished" pieces? Or does he just consider them unfinished "studies"? I assume the latter, but you just never know what every artist's approach to art may be.

He's an impressionistic painter, and I think this is the final piece he was aiming for, not a study or something to be completed later.  However, his larger studio works are often tighter or more "finished".  I love all of it.