Surf City Paint Out

Back from a week of painting on the North Carolina coast at Surf City, good company and great sea food. 

A Visit

A visit from Colleen Webster, Colleen and I painted from my observation deck with our friend. Images above are of my block-in, the view and the finished 6x6 painting which I will join with the members on DPW Auction.

Paint out Demonstration

Peggy H.Taylor and I  had a fabulous find and in good time for the poppy, the weather could not have been better. Painting this landscape for me was about awe, wonder and respect recognizing the effort it must have taken to exist and flourish only a few years ago.

 The images on the left take you from my sketch to the final touches.  This painting is a 10x10 o/p and was paint in about one hour and a half,off of Pensacola Road in Yancey, North Carolina

Demo, Thin Hen, painting for the art shop

This oil painting was inspired by a ACEO painting "Hen on the run" and I was set up to do a demo. The other photo is of my old hen house when I had free range chickens and wonderful eggs. The finished 8X6 oil on panel will be in my art store in June. Thanks for looking and keep painting.

Demo, Thin Hen

I how have enough paint on the painting to do some push and/or pull with the oil paint, see detail on left.  
The finished painting.  Brushstrokes do matter, follow the contour of the object.
My palette at the end of the painting.

Demo,Thin Hen

Image to the left..... I started with a toned gessoed 6X8 panel and a sketch.Is the composition what I want?
Center image.....I am blocking in the darks and background. Are the values right?
Right image..... If you have something in your painting that you do not want to change or not willing to change then you are in trouble. The little darlings have to go.

Demonstration

Above is the demo. I did on Monday the 8th of March, I was ask by artist Jon Houglum to give a demonstration for the Up Town Gallery in Franklin, NC. I choose a dry (10x10in) panel that had already been prepared with a raw sienna wash and using a limited palette prepared support to produce a finished or virtually finished painting with in one session. This is the method I use when I paint out doors,working on a small scale and applying the colors in a speedily conceived, one hit manner, the technique of alla prima.

Painting on the Rocky Broad

Peggy Taylor and I spent the day painting on the Broad River at Chimney Rock,NC and Lake Lure,NC although it looked like rain all day, it turn out great.

The Finish Painting

Done

This painting will be in the exhibition: "Landscapes: Of Hope and Glory" at www.16patton.com Oct. this year.

60 minutes later

Sketch in

To do the first thing

Setting up Pochade box