Serial Painting

This concept of creating a "storyboard" of a day is so cool. Serial painting is to paint the same scene several times a day in different lighting, or similar scenes one after another. (Color and Light, pg. 208)
 Gurney suggests that perhaps on a train ride, you make several sketches, only 1.5 inches wide, of the scenery. Since it passes so quickly you depend on your memory, and this leaves the general feel, or "characteristic" of the landscape in your painting.

(Nathan Fowkes, serial painting)

(Claude Monet, Houses of Parliament series, 1900-1904)