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September 2011 Blog Posts (8)

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Continued Plein Air the Emerging Art Form - 2nd part

Talent, the unusual ingredient in much art today, is a defining quality in plein air painting.  If it is missing - it is very obvious.  No amount of colorful interesting devices will substitute.  It shows!  …

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Added by Lynne Haines on September 28, 2011 at 6:42pm — No Comments

Creating a Sense of Light on a Lackluster Day

Someone recently asked how one can create a sense of light when the day lacks brilliance.  When the sun has gone behind the clouds or the fog has rolled in, contrast lessens and edges soften.  You'll find that this more diffuse light will creep into shadows, weakening them. Things can began to look downright gloomy.  When this…

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Added by Michael Chesley Johnson on September 26, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

pleiin air at the flowerfield in Zundert, at the mill Van Gogh must have seen in his live

Added by Mieke van Zundert on September 23, 2011 at 5:53pm — No Comments

Saint Doulaughs Church

My friend Philip Doherty called to my house last Wednesday. We are neighbours and have a mutual intest in art. Philip drove out the Malahide road and parked the car near the nursing home. We put our tree legged stools down on the grass with the wall to support our backs. Across the road we could see Saint Doulaughs Church. It was a stone roofed building and was founded by an ancorite ( a hermit monk) around 600ad. We sketched the scene using a technique similar to Ptolomy Dean, a British… Continue

Added by James Michael Harpur on September 22, 2011 at 4:18pm — No Comments

Mauve café at Laren (Netherlands)

Added by Jan Baggen on September 18, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

The only emerging art form in fifty years - plein air.

What’s so special about Plein Air painting?  Well, just sooo much really.



Plein air painting is no longer simply a quick way to create pre-paintings for larger, later to be painted studio oil and watercolor paintings.  Plein air has matured.   Plein air is all grown up and ready to work for any gallery smart enough to recognize it as the most interesting new form of art to appear in 50 years.



The “act of plein air painting” is a greater aesthetic experience than studio… Continue

Added by Lynne Haines on September 14, 2011 at 4:12pm — 1 Comment

Will be teaching Webinars...for F&W Pub...(Wetcanvas, Northlight Books, etc)

Have been asked to be ready to start teaching as soon as next month, October...and will be using "Go To Meeting" as the delivery vehicle.  The first lesson will be on Composition for the Painter...a live attendee instructional event, where I will use Power Point, Facetime to address questions, a…

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Added by Larry Seiler on September 8, 2011 at 12:05am — 2 Comments

SEPA Paint Out - Courtown Harbour, Co. Wexford 4/9/11



It was a "tale of two days", today, for our paint out in Courtown Harbour. The morning looked a little threatening, and, sure enough, by lunchtime we were racing for cover as the heavens opened!!The afternoon however saw some brightness on the horizon, and the sun came out to warm us!

This was only my…

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Added by Karen Scannell on September 4, 2011 at 4:32pm — No Comments

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