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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting: June 2009
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting. Dialog with painting and painters, working en plein air and embodying the spirit of nature in my "Jewels in the Landscape" paintings. Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Door County, WI. The weather on the peninsula is varied and with so many beautiful places to paint, it's pretty easy to work around whatever happens. I was interested in the light, the water effects and subtlety of color in this "widie". . Am heading out now to explore just such an opportunity. Links to this post.
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting: August 2010
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting. Dialog with painting and painters, working en plein air and embodying the spirit of nature in my "Jewels in the Landscape" paintings. Monday, August 16, 2010. Thoughts from previous drafts not posted. Here's a list of thoughts about painting:. Rules make lousy paintings. Eg, 'never put the subject in the center'. The only thing that works is working. Observation is better than instruction. Fear can help unpeel the dangerous entre into good painting, risk all. It's okay to s...
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting: November 2009
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting. Dialog with painting and painters, working en plein air and embodying the spirit of nature in my "Jewels in the Landscape" paintings. Friday, November 27, 2009. Go to the Driftless6/10.blogspot site where I posted about some nice wool, fingerless mits a friend made for me. Tomorrow promises to be a good morning for painting with them and I'll photograph them. She made them from felted old sweaters. What are you doing? And so on for a little while more until I asked if she'd...
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting: December 2009
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting. Dialog with painting and painters, working en plein air and embodying the spirit of nature in my "Jewels in the Landscape" paintings. Thursday, December 03, 2009. Links to this post. Tools of the Trade. Painting With Ice Cubes". The usual gouache underpainting was not a good approach on this day and after the sun came up the temps dropped further. The top of the pond had ice and even the dribbles from my rinse container froze instantly. Links to this post. Plein air and rain.
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting: August 2009
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting. Dialog with painting and painters, working en plein air and embodying the spirit of nature in my "Jewels in the Landscape" paintings. Tuesday, August 25, 2009. 3x18 inches, pastel and gouache on sandpaper. The colors of fall are showing up and the raking light emphasizes it much more. Links to this post. Labels: choosing a format. Reclamation Pond, Dusk" Detail. 6x18 inches, pastel and gouache on sandpaper. Links to this post. Wednesday, August 05, 2009. Links to this post.
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting: July 2009
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting. Dialog with painting and painters, working en plein air and embodying the spirit of nature in my "Jewels in the Landscape" paintings. Monday, July 27, 2009. Shadows and Light: Perfect Moment". Pastel on Wallis with gouache underpainting, 9x12 inches. The festival wrap up was yesterday so I'll post a summary to cover the week, photos here and there, therefore it'll be a longish one. Beginning on Sunday with stamping and ending the next Sunday at 2:30, the painting was full o...
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting: October 2009
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting. Dialog with painting and painters, working en plein air and embodying the spirit of nature in my "Jewels in the Landscape" paintings. Monday, October 12, 2009. Mid October presents another painting week in Door County with my painting buddies, yahoo! It will be beautiful though I haven't painted there so late in the year. This also presents a chance to work with the GPS markers I've planted over the last six months as painting sites. Links to this post. Working titles are a...
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting: May 2010
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting. Dialog with painting and painters, working en plein air and embodying the spirit of nature in my "Jewels in the Landscape" paintings. Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Critiques: Work well spent. The earlier work was on black and the new work done in my usual technique of gouache underpainting on sandpaper. "Spooky" and "alive" were the first comments to come out of the curator and the director's mouths seeing the first, black background, early work. Links to this post. Featured in ...
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting: September 2009
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Pastelfish Plein Air Painting. Dialog with painting and painters, working en plein air and embodying the spirit of nature in my "Jewels in the Landscape" paintings. Thursday, September 17, 2009. Indication of Spring" 6x6 pastel on sand paper. That's when I know the design was right, the purpose was right and the painting worth waiting for. Links to this post. Friday, September 04, 2009. Working title: "Dusk" 6x18 pastel on sand paper, Door County Wisc. This piece shows quite a bit of underpainting and th...
