Showing posts with label plein air. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plein air. Show all posts

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Plein air sketch - Berlin

Still with a sore back, I limped around this neighbourhood in Spandau, Berlin and settled at a table to make this quickie, using conté pencil.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

"Cattle Point Morn" oil 11x14

Plein Air painted in just over an hour at Cattle Point in Victoria, Vancouver Island.
See the selfie video (link on the right).
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

"Bird light" marker on oil underpainting

Marker pen (Sharpie) 3 1/8" x 5 7/8"

How to use off cuts from truncated canvas boards! Fun. Patterns in the sky. Poles apart. I could use any of these titles but I confess to this being an ALLA PRIMA piece - there's no correcting if you just do it. Plein Air artists do it in the open whereas Alla Prima artists do it all at once.....