Archive for January 19th, 2010
Plein Air Painting at RRC
Last Friday, my friend and I packed all our painting equipment in the car and set out for the Randell Research Center on Pine Island. We have been there other years so it was not new to us. She planned to use two 10″ x 20″ canvasses as a diptych because the 18″ x 18″ canvasses which she had ordered had not arrived yet. I had a 30″ x 30″ canvas that I wanted to use.
After 2 hours or so of plein air painting, we were ready to call it a day. She had used only one of her canvasses to paint a shell mound and it was completely covered with paint. (That’s the first objective – to get the canvas completely covered!) I chose a grouping of palm trees with a few deciduous trees nearby. My drawing was finished and some photos taken. I had started painting the grass and mulch around the trees – going from bottom to top of the canvas – not my usual method. I’ll have plenty more to do on this painting back home in the studio!