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Playing Studio Detective with a Monet Painting

If there were any artist, past or present, into whose studio I could magically transport myself and observe him paint, it would be Claude Monet. I have always been intrigued by his painting style, especially his highly textured and complex surfaces. When...

Published 8 Feb 2012 10:30 PM by Mitchell Albala

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, Landscape Painting, drawing
Don't Let Your Plein-Air Skills Grow Cold

Don't give up your plein air focus over the winter months. Try to paint from life indoors and keep sketching. ( Melting Snow by Ben Fenske, 60 x 75, oil on canvas.) For some of us, winter weather is just a bit too unpredictable and chilly to spend...

Published 9 Jan 2012 10:37 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, Landscape Painting, drawing, sketching, Still Life, Portrait Painting
Don't Set Yourself Up for Failure from the Start

Optimal Orientation of Subject and Artist in Plein Air Before the first daub of paint is squeezed out of the tube and brush is put to canvas, many plein air painters have already set themselves up for failure. How? By selecting a site that doesn't...

Published 28 Oct 2011 11:56 AM by Mitchell Albala

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, Landscape Painting, drawing, How to Draw, Photo Reference
Tricky Stuff--Limit Your Focus & Expand Your Painting Options

Demonstration: Exploring Composition Through a Limited Focus A "limited focus" isn't limiting at all, but expands our options in composition The first compositional move any painter makes is to apply a limited focus. Whether it be a still...

Published 25 Oct 2011 11:35 AM by Mitchell Albala

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, Landscape Painting, drawing, Still Life
A Very Different Kind of Landscape Painting

Ernest Lawson (1873 - 1939) came to maturity at the dawn of the 20th century, so his work was modern and gritty and real. His are not the idyllic landscape paintings of Corot , nor are they the dazzling light shows in Monet's plein air paintings ...

Published 5 Oct 2011 10:54 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, Landscape Painting, drawing
Please Forgive Me If This Sounds a Little Harsh...

But I think it's time for some straight talk. I've participated in many, many plein air painting critiques over the years, and I can't begin to tell you how often I've been faced with landscape paintings that are a little off. Perhaps...

Published 21 Sep 2011 10:18 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, Landscape Painting, drawing
Plein Air Paintings Created By Torchlight & Preserved Forever

Drawings of horses in the Chauvet caves. We recently watched the Werner Herzog film, Chauvet: Cave of Forgotten Dreams . Herzog made the film about the prehistoric, 30,000- to 32,000 year-old cave art discovered in 1994 in the Ardeche region of France...

Published 5 Sep 2011 10:10 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, drawing
The First Plein Air Painters

The cave paintings of Lascaux. Legend has it that Pablo Picasso remarked upon emerging from a visit to Lascaux cave that, "we have discovered nothing new in art in 17,000 years." The beautiful artwork from this ancient era is a reminder of our...

Published 3 Aug 2011 10:03 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, drawing, shading
Painting Outdoors: Fast and Easy Block-Ins

I used to waste oodles of time blocking in my plein air paintings until I finally learned some great tips for doing them fast, such as skipping the drawing, establishing the value range first, and addressing each set of values in a logical order. Here's...

Published 18 Jul 2011 10:24 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, drawing
5 Tips That Fine-Tune My Outdoor Paintings

Fallen Tree, Mississippi by Jeffrey Smith, 11 x 14, oil painting. My studio is filled with stuff to look at: still life objects, postcards of paintings that I love, and written notes of things to think about and remember as I'm working on a painting...

Published 13 Jul 2011 10:14 PM by jeffreysmithart

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, Landscape Painting, drawing, Still Life
The Art of the Dog

Watercolor study by John Hulsey, 7 1/2 x 7. Being strong dog proponents (especially for dogs in the studio, where they never provide negative commentary), and being the caretakers (or is it the other way around?) of two ancient (in dog years) Great Pyrenees...

Published 4 Jul 2011 10:52 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, drawing, Art Lessons, How to Draw, How to Draw People
Composing On the Fly When Painting Outdoors

A photo of the plein air landscape site I chose to paint. I can still recall the first morning I saw this little bend in the river ike it was yesterday. The air was still cool and breezy, the sun was glinting off the water, the bees in their hive were...

Published 23 Jun 2011 11:05 AM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, Landscape Painting, drawing, figure drawing, sketching
Plein Air Artist Asher B. Durand Wrote Me a Letter...Sorta...Not Really

Rocky Cliff by Asher B. Durand, oil on canvas, 1860. Based on an article by Allison Malafronte. As you all well know, I spend a lot of time writing. But I also spend a lot of time reading, and lately I have absolutely fallen in love with reading letters...

Published 21 Jun 2011 1:36 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, Landscape Painting, drawing
Finding the Warms and Cools of White

Painting flowers is sometimes a study in the subtlety of color, as in Ann's flower oil painting, Philadelphus III (oil, 12 x 16). Painting large flower portraits has given me the opportunity to explore what seem to be the nearly infinite shades and...

Published 30 May 2011 10:23 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, How to Paint, drawing, Art Lessons, How to Draw, Painting Flowers, How to Draw Flowers
Using Your Sketchbook to Good Advantage

Hi all! This is my first blog at Artist Daily, and I wanted to jump right in and discuss one of the best things I think a plein air painter can do—use a sketchbook to plan your composition and clarify your vision of the finished painting you have in mind.
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Published 9 May 2011 10:35 PM by jeffreysmithart

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, drawing

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