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I have an awesome wife. She has noticed that I have been in a creative slump. She had listened to comments I made earlier last year that I had an interest in doing plein air, and so she bought me this pochade box for Christmas.

I'm really looking forward to using it, and have been looking for places around our town to set up and paint.

I may be asking for help in some instances. As I've never worked in plein air before.

#Art #Painting #PleinAir #OilPainting #Landscapes

A brown wooden box called a "pochade box" opened with a roll of paper towel hanging from a string.

A wooden pochade box opened with a small canvas board, and a hanging roll of paper towel.

peril (la leaves)

#art #pleinair #photography #misfortune

Temperaturbedingt waren die Fahrgäste heute dick eingemummelt. Die Tinte des Kugelschreibers, den ich in einer Außentasche zu tragen pflege, zeigte sich ob des Frostes zunächst so hochviskos wie sonst nie. #ballpointpen #ballpendrawing #drawing #berlin #inkdrawing #pleinair #charlottenburg #kugelschreiberzeichnung #peopledrawing #peopleonthetrain #portraitdrawing #mastoart

Passagiere des Nahverkehrs #ballpointpen #ballpendrawing #drawing #berlin #inkdrawing #pleinair #charlottenburg #kugelschreiberzeichnung #peopledrawing #peopleonthetrain #portraitdrawing #mastoart

A Watercolor of our Cozy Living Room, from life. #art #artwork #artworks #artist #artists #watercolor #watercolors #watercolorpainting #watercolorpaintings #paintings #livingroom #pleinair #lifestudy #lifestudies #cozy #smallhouseliving #tinyhouseliving #tinyhouse #smallhouse

The last of autumn. #pleinair #watercolor at Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, Santa Rosa California. #art #artist #landscape #watercolour

A landscape watercolor of trees in different shapes and colors, with the last of the bright yellow ginkgos.

This is 'technically' an autumn painting, because winter doesn't start until next week, but we have had more snow than usual here in Kentucky---I bundled up and pushed myself out of my cozy studio to do some painting from direct observation--no photos or Ai (barf)

https://youtu.be/iou-ctB26bk

#art #painting #oilPainting #pleinAir #kentukcy #winter #snow #mastoArt

#Art #Gouache #ColouredPencil #PleinAir #UrbanSketching#MixedMedia #Doesburg #Kruidentuin #HerbalGarden #Vikariehuis #Vicary

Felt very festive painting Old Town today, even though the snow’s melted away.

#pleinair #COwx #watercolor #aquarelle #NoCo #fortcollins #ftcollins #coloradoartist #coloradoart

Felt very festive painting Old Town today, even though the snow has melted away.

#pleinair #COwx #watercolor #aquarelle #NoCo #fortcollins #ftcollins #coloradoartist #coloradoart

A photo of a watercolor painting of Nature’s Own Imagination shop in downtown Fort Collins. The artist is holding the painting up in front of the subject.

Painted in near-freezing weather with casein for the first time at a Christmas tree farm. I overlooked that my paint set did not include white, so I had to work transparently like watercolor mostly.

#pleinair #casein #farm #winter

Painting on watercolor paper using casein paint: an old barn is painted over orange ink strokes giving it a glow effect. A large, barren tree towers just behind the barn. In the foreground are several small Christmas trees growing in their rows.

Medium and Message: Oil on paper

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/09/medium-and-message-oil-on-paper/

<p>Centuries of experience with painting using oil paints have proved the importance of a robust support and a ground that isolates the paint layer from its support. Older use of wood panels with a gesso ground consisting largely of gypsum or chalk ensured the paint layer wouldn’t be subjected to mechanical stress, and would remain isolated from the underlying wood. Canvases became popular because of their relative lightness particularly in larger sizes, but still require an isolating ground layer both to protect the canvas from damage by the paint, and to prevent discolouration of the paint.</p>
<p>When sketching in oils in front of the motif became increasingly popular in the late eighteenth century, those paintings weren’t intended for public view, but as an aid for the artist when composing finished paintings in the studio. Rather than gather hundreds of small oil sketched on canvas or panels, the first <em>plein air</em> painters usually used paper or cardboard as support and ground. Subsequently, when their studios were sold off following their death, surviving oil sketches were usually laid on canvas for preservation and display.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_407" style="width: 660px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/val1693.jpg"><img alt="Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, (Title not known) (c 1783), oil on paper laid on canvas, c 18 x 28 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris. © 2015 EHN & DIJ Oakley." class="size

Passagiere des Nahverkehrs #ballpointpen #ballpendrawing #drawing #berlin #inkdrawing #pleinair #charlottenburg #kugelschreiberzeichnung #peopledrawing #peopleonthetrain #portraitdrawing #mastoart

A house at the bottom of the Liberty steps in San Francisco, California #watercolor #pleinair #painting #art #mastoart #urbanSketching #psoul

A house at the bottom of the Liberty St steps, San Francisco, California
#watercolor #pleinair #painting #art #mastoart #urbanSketching #psoul

Painting of a house which has a big tree in front of it

My fingers are frozen lol! Plein air just finished. The last of the gingkos and other autumn colors. #art #pleinair #watercolor #watercolour #landscape #artist

Went outside to paint again after several months. I felt a bit rusty but I think I got the colors of the winter here down well enough.

#allaprima #pleinair #oilpainting #painting #schilderkunst #kunst #art #mastoart #fediart #Winterlandschaft #bush #landscapepainting

#PleinAir

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