Some artists are travelers and adventurers.
The nineteenth century landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church was one such artist. He traveled all over the world bringing sketches of foreign and exotic places back to his studio in New York City. Once in his studio, he transferred these sketches onto large canvases and created oil paintings about the unusual places he visited. People were very excited to see his paintings. In the 1800s, when Frederic Church was painting, it was very difficult to travel long distances.