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| Fritz using his VW as an easel |
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| Sketching downtown Calgary with grandson looking on |
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| Teaching art classes out on the deck |
After long winters, when there were limitations on the outdoor motifs, the summertime was a most welcome season. It provided more color, easier travel, and much less worry about frozen hands and frozen paints.
Not only did Fritz chase a good view and set up in some unusual places, he encouraged his students to do the same.
He explained about color and clouds and perspective, but the thing that probably was hardest to teach, was how to get the 'feel' of the landscape into the painting. It is this 'feel' or 'mood' that made his paintings so popular. He somehow managed to capture more than just the view.
