Friday, March 25, 2011

Mar 25 - Another One Gets Worked Over

Workshop!!
The American Academy of Equine Art is collaborating with me at my studio to teach a five-day workshop on horses in landscape (using the Color System). It's scheduled for April 11-15 and the weather will be just perfect for it! Here in Riverside, we have Raindance for a model (which she loves!).

I'm scheduling drawing sessions with my neighbor's Arabs, taking those images or the student's own reference photographs and working them up with the Color System to create wonderful equine paintings.
 
A portion of your workshop fee is a donation to the tax deductible AAEA, too!
Original "Problem Child"
12 x 16 Oil on Panel
 
 
Yesterday's painting is sold.
March 25 - Another Re-do of an Oldie
Changing the time of day....  When I picked up this "oldie-but-not-quite-Goodie" off the shelf, I knew I was going to make some dramatic color changes to teach my workshop students about time of day.
 
The original painting was done on location at the Sants Rosa Preserve in Murrieta, California. It was done with that limited colors I mentioned yesterday, and I'll share them with you: Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Yellow Light, Pthalo Green and Burnt Umber. A great palette for a lot of plein air painters, even though limited. I've come to dislike the limited options it brings, and have expanded it to the twelve of the Color System which suits me.
 
This painting is now full of morning light, and yet appears more yellow than I would like--the photograph doesn't do it justice.
 
Workshop information is HERE.
Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you! 
 
And on Other News....
No pictures of the big garden--it's raining again and so I hiked around the valley with Vince and the sheep instead. I love being outdoors even in the rain, so I guess I don't have any sense, eh? My Mom used to say I didn't have either the "sense God gave a goat" (Vince would disagree) or "not enough sense to come in out of the rain". I just smile.....
 
Thanks for reading,
Elin
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Mar 24 - Redoing an old one and new format

NEWS!!!
How do you like the new format? I had to go to an upgrade of what I'm sharing by not using the blog for sharing. They just did one too many things to make it tough to communicate, so here we are with a new provider and better pleasure in keeping open the communication.
Original "Problem Child"
12 x 16 Oil on Panel
March 24 - Redoing an Old One
Sometimes we have to fix paintings....  For the recently completed workshop, I demonstrated evening light on an old 12 x 16 oil I'd done years ago (2002) as part of a class I taught in plein air painting for the community college. I remember the objective for the day--"atmospheric perspective". For these college students, who had few yards of canvas under their brushes, I kept the colors simple. They were working with the basic palette of five colors plus white.The site was chosen because of the stairstepping mountain ranges getting lighter and softer as they receded to the left.
Now that I'm using 12 colors in the Color System, the results are DRAMATIC in the changes of color. And I absolutely loved going over the old painting with the new Color System knowledge. Picking the colors to liven up the canvas was easy as I kept my head in either the warm or cool boxes to mix the colors.
I promised the students I'd do more of this, and I'll share them with you in the days to come.
Workshop information is HERE.
Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you! 
And on Other News....
I'm having tons of fun planning and planting the new 48 x 36' garden plot (pictures coming). I've upped the ante on tomato plants, having a whopping ten heirloom varieties from the three I had last year. The Swiss chard is in, as are the summer squashes. I'm starting the winter squash in the raised beds for transplanting later this afternoon. Still eating the lettuces and carrots and beets from the winter planting cycle. Carrots are SO good!
Thanks for reading,
Elin

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