plein air

My plein air tree painting is still evolving. Today I worked on creating more space within the painting. And I added more texture and interest to the trees. Here are a few images of the painting along the way. I’ll work on it again at least one more time next week.

Today’s Thunderstorm

I painted these trees outside today while the wind was whipping around and my paper towels kept flying away. 9X12″ oil on canvas

Parkcenter Pond

6×6″ oil on panel I’m still trying to get a handle on painting plein air. Trying to stay loose and thinking a lot about composition. And laying down a lot of paint.

Plein Air on a warm day

Today was so nice! It’s warm, not windy, and I enjoyed painting the pretty sky. In fact, I enjoyed painting the sky so much that in this painting I think it totally out does the land. I wish it was all sky. I’ll try that sometime. So what do you think? I’m trying to paintContinue reading “Plein Air on a warm day”

Castlerock from Morningside

14X18 oil on canvas Today I went out and did this plein air painting. I had to brave the wind and ended up painting right out of the back of the car with the canvas laying flat in the back. My canvas kept blowing away at first. Note to self- bring along the thing thatContinue reading “Castlerock from Morningside”

Plein air Sage and Foothills

Yesterday was beautiful here in Boise so I went out and painted in the foothills. But right when I got set up and started I realized that I had forgotten my white paint. So I decided to see how far I could get without it. I had Naples yellow, so that helped some. SoContinue reading “Plein air Sage and Foothills”

24×24″ oil on canvas I took my canvas and paints into the foothills yesterday and started this painting. It was a little cloudy and windy. But not freezing. But not quite spring. I just really wanted to be outside.

Boise Foothills

Today I went out into the foothills and painted these 4 little 4×4″ plein air paintings. It’s starting to warm up a little and the grass is starting to turn green. I pretended that it’s already really green in the hills and painted the grass green.

Abstract

6×6″ oil on canvas This is my first baby step towards abstract art. I want to figure out a way to paint music, specifically Ravel’s “Sad Birds,” and a Beethoven piece that I love. I image the painting to be abstract, but I haven’t figured that out yet. Sad Birds would be lonely feeling butContinue reading “Abstract”