When I drive on the narrow country roads, I love staring at all the country houses…their gardens, their latest activity, the latest changes, their potagers (vegetable gardens). Life is never quiet and static at a country home. Sometimes the houses are nestled on top of the grass hills, entouré (surrounded) by trees for shade and […]
Tag: landscape painting
September 22 & 23: Plein air paintings.
Two plein air paintings for these two days. With the wonderful weather we are having this week, it would be shameful not to paint out. ..the old ruin.. oil on linen, 33×46 cm With the past rains we had, the fields have exploded into greens and wildflowers, especially wild pink heather. It is not for […]
More oil and gouache studies
I have been working a bit more in gouache and oil in the fields…doing the few hay balls still lying around in the fields here and there. The following pieces are only exercises done on site in plein air. I’m working hard at just interpreting, not rendering the reality, but only the essentials. …close-up 1 […]
Oil painting – plein air – a quiet path.
Yesterday I did a plein air(sur le motif) painting…on my birthday. It was great. I’m quite happy with it in the sense that I really didn’t fiddle..I gave a first wash, then a second layer thin paint and then the final layer and lastly added fine details and I’m happy it turned out OK. And […]
Plein air painting at Coin Perdu
I picked up my plein air painting again and even though the wrist is stiff and unwilling to be free and spontaneous, AND my eye is out, my perspective and composition is askew and the little apple tree stands right smack in the middle where the hill ends…a very bad meeting point and I might […]
