Kensington Metropark 11-22-09

This painting fell off my easel facedown in my driveway when I got home from pliene painting with friends. I reworked it quite a bit. Used a zorn palette.

Inspiration from Bambi

I did this after watching Bambi with my daughter last night. That movies artwork still amazes me. This is watercolor on Arches. 5"x5"

Something before work

Pleine Aire at the Metro Park

I did this charcoal at the park and I also did a painting and I got home and the painting fell face down on the ground in my driveway. I am going to have to scrape it with a razor and repaint the whole thing. I was upset. I wasn't a total loss though my friend Heiner liked it. Heiner is a pro.
Cheers

A small watercolor.

Imaginative Landscape.

2 1/2 hours. Heavy on Sepia. I will probably take another shot at this with some different planning. I like it though.

Watercolor and Gouache.

Watercolor and Gouache for the lights.

Water color and gouache.

Water Color and a touch of gouache

Watercolor Landscape

Charcoal Landscape

I don't use charcoal because I think it is messy but I may do some more to try and get it to handle the way I want it to. I just invented this landscape because I wanted to use the charcoal.
It's vine charcoal on a piece of sketch paper. I almost always tape off my drawings to put it in a frame so to speak.
I definitely need to work on the technical side of what charcoal has to offer.
Cheers

Pleine Aire at the Crawford Farm

This is such a great place to go and paint. It's about 25 miles away from my home. I hate driving there, but it was worth it I guess.

Merit Award for Tree of Life

This drawing entitled Tree of Life won a merit award at the Canton Fine Arts Exhibition last night. It was very exciting to win an award from a show with such good work on display. There were 147 submitting artists, 41 of those artists were chosen each displaying one piece.
It's such a good feeling.
Cheers

Here are some of the Michigan Pleine Aire painters at work. Heiner wasn't there today. We painted at a farm. So much fun. I wanted to get photos of the work being done but my camera died on me.

I used a Zorn palette. I think it reads ok. I have to rework it. I may paint one of these photos today.

Fun Fun Fun

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