DETAIL of 10/7/14 plein air oil
5:52 PM: the time is fast approaching when the warmer weather will allow me to go out and paint plein air at our creeks. will i do it? i’m a bit less inclined just because i have more difficulty than i used to carrying all my stuff out to the site i choose: stool, portable easel, bag with brushes & colors and of course the canvas or paper i’m going to use. mikela could and will help, and once i’m settled she could take her walk & help again once she’s back.
here’s an example of a 16x16” plein air oil i made in 2014. it’s on the finest portrait linen, which allows for the watercolor-like, painterly strokes you see. only this particular linen double primed canvas allows the oil paint to be applied with this level of immediacy.
10/7/14 plein air oil 16x16”
1:14 PM: while continuing to stretch the smaller, 16x20” canvases, which will be joined to form a larger composition, i gave a glancing blow to yesterday’s 2021 creek oil 10. glancing blow meaning that, as i squeezed by it on my way to my canvas stretching table, i went over what i did yesterday with a light wash, which i then started working into. here’s the current state.
2021 creek oil 10 as it looked moments ago.
8:39 AM:on our walk up cottonwood trail yesterday we witnessed a striking richness of colors. we stopped a few times sothat i could take some shots with my phone, and one longer stop so that i could make a drawing, which i completed this morning, moments ago.
4/7 and 4/8/21 trail drawing