What does an artist learn from 3 weeks in California? In April 2013 New Zealand artists Richard Robinson and John Crump visited California for 3 weeks. For 4 days they were faculty members at the Plein Air Painting Convention in Monterey. The rest of the time they were lost in the landscape. This book is a painter's diary - a collection of thoughts, realisations, notes, techniques and even an epiphany or two, written to inspire and enlighten any landscape...