Saturday, February 16, 2013

Love plein air...


Love plein air; Quotations from "Hawthorne on Painting" by Charles W. Hawthorne

"Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked — start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost. Put off finish — make a lot of starts.  Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. Swing a bigger brush — you don't know what you're missing. Paint what you see, not what you know. To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world."

Friday, February 15, 2013

En plein air...really!

En plein air..9x12 oil on panel
Today the thermometer rose into the mid  40'sF ...absolutely balmy after weeks of freezing weather...so here it is...my first plein air sketch for 2013!  Shutesbury: Susanne's Barn.