Are landscapes easy to paint?
People who are learning to paint often assume that they should paint a person or a face to start with, as it is a lot smaller and more focused than something like a landscape. The problem is though that getting the features right like the posture and the facial expression is incredibly difficult when you are first starting out, and they often end up looking like an alien!
I think you would have a lot more success if you invested in some some landscape painting books and then started to work on creating them. You don’t have to paint anything wonderful at first, just put in the sky and some hills with grass on, then start to build features onto that and experiment as you go. Landscapes are beautiful even if they are quite basic because they have an obvious subject matter so you don’t have to try and work out what the painting is about, and they use a wide variety of colors. This gives you a real sense of achievement when you finish one and gives you work to show to people too.
Working with a landscape also gives you lots of opportunity to work with depth, a concept most painters struggle with. As you have features in the foreground like maybe a gate or tree, and other features like a house in the background, then you can work on getting those proportions right to simulate the distance between them. Plus you get to work with light and shading if you want to, you can make the area under the tree shaded and have light shading the hills. You learn so much every time you try a new landscape that you can never say you have mastered them or that you are bored of them.