The main focus of the workshop I attended in Highlands was moving from Plein Air to the studio. This was such an important topic for me because that is one of my biggest struggles. The second day there I worked on moving the birdhouse the plein air study into a larger, 11″ x 14″ format. Our teacher, John MacDonald, helped me use more of a tonalist technique on this one and it was fun to try and carefully control the brushwork here.