Oh, my! What should I buy?
My basic palette in my pochade box. I am happy to share my plein air supply lists with both my own students and others: · Watercolor supply list. · Oil painting supply list. · Pastel supply list. I have friends who are tremendously efficient plein air packers. I freely admit I’m not up to their standard, but …
The nature of Nature
“Keuka Lake Vineyard,” oil on canvasboard, 9X12 This year I am teaching plein air painting in two venues. I believe that all aspiring painters should study plein air. Why? Character: The strength of plein air painting lies in its relationship to reality, but that is also its greatest weakness. Slavish homage to what one sees …
It’s not easy being green
“Jamie’s waterfall,” 12X16, oil on canvasboard. Painted in two hours flat, and after packing my car and driving six hours. Only possible because I was working with a color matrix. We are at that moment when the greens of the northeast suddenly become massive, heavy, and sometimes overbearing to new painters. We love summer, we …
Some Days, You Just Can’t Get Rid of a Bomb
“Loren’s farm,” oil on canvasboard, 12X16 At our last painting session, Marilyn whipped out her grayscale markers (making me instantly regret that I hadn’t brought mine along). The forest was remarkably dark and moody this week, and the spring foliage far less advanced than down on the lake plains, and I was finding it difficult …
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There just might be something to this.
Early spring morning, Piseco Lake, oil on canvasboard, 12X16 Yesterday, I wrote about a Stillman & Birn Alpha Series sketchbook that Jamie Grossman gave me, and my first attempt to pre-sketch my paintings in it in watercolor. This morning as I walked my appointed rounds, I carried the sketchbook and watercolors instead of my camera. The …