Autumn has arrived, with a bang!
Whenever I get the chance I love to meet up with my pal Margaret Kent and go painting Pleine Air. To paint in this manner is very challenging. Many painters paint purely from photographs, which means it is easy to control what you put on the page. It also to me means that the essence of the scene is missing quite often. This also allows for a looseness and fluidity and brings a painterliness to a piece. As a painting technique I believe it is so true and honest and allows one to capture the atmosphere of a place….it allows the artist to paint what they ‘feel’ when about a scene as opposed to the sterility of working photographically. Working purely from photographs I believe means the end product can be lacking in true artistic quality.
Sometimes photographs are a very useful tool for refreshing the memory and for ensuring accuracy of objects and especially animals and people.
I was painting this little piece in St Mullis when the heavens opened, so I finished it at home, with the aid of my camera phone. The basis was still on the page and was particularly emotive……thanks to the raindrops!
My work with groups is really at its busiest right now and here is a small selections some of the work done by some of the people.
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