"Twins," 8" x 10", oil painting on panel, inquiries to ksantini@turtledovedesigns.com .It's been a while since I last posted to this blog. Guess I have been REALLY immersed in the daily paintings. But I did want to share some of the piecess from the plein air course I took last month.
It was a week long adventure into painting out of doors, working directly from the landscape, and using oil paints for the first time.
And of course, being Michigan, the weather did not coorperate.
Day one we wandered the grounds and did thumbnail sketches, planning compositions and breaking them down into planes, using about 5 values.
Day two was cold, windy, and threatening rain. We convened in the classroom to paint from memory, using our thumbnail sketches as guides.
That's where this piece, "Twin Shrubs" came from. The night prior I was drawn to the negative spaces between the low slung, woven branches, and the way the evening light glowed from behind.
This was a nice exercise for me, and allowed a lot of playing with the oil paint, working across the surface of the panel, lifting areas of paint, rubbing others in. I could have kept on working for hours, exploring the properties of the paint.
When we returned to the gardens the following night, I realized how "off" my painting really was. Just gives me another reason to try the same concept at another time.
Thanks, as always, for looking,
Kim
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