My friend Gina and I launched the 2025 plein air painting season yesterday with a drive to the causeway out to Stone Harbor, lots of views of marshes.
I'm going to try to approach plein air differently this year: 1) Twice a week, short, say 2 hour, outings; 2) new mindset: sketches, not "paintings"--I'm hoping this will reduce anxiety and up enjoyment; 3) return to the same site; 4) try to learn something--about shapes, about simplifying, about color, about POV ...
I may even try bringing a very reduced palette with me, a few favorite yellows and blues, and burnt sienna.
These are, in order, sketches from our first two stops: spent about 45 minutes at the first stop, half-hour at the second. I did these in my Stillman & Birn Beta series sketchbook, which stands up to washes pretty well.
And a little watercolor, 6x12, done at our second stop,
Tomorrow I'll post the paintings from out final stop yesterday: half hour on the dunes.
4 comments:
Really beautiful.
Thank you. Linda!
Don't you find the more you limit what you can use the more inventive you have to be....the decision fatigue is lost, there is less internal chatter I find it helps me settle down to business quicker. I like the juxtaposition of tonal sketch with colour.
Decision fatigue describes it perfectly!
I love all the beautiful colors. But when it comes to actually trying to paint ... The colors aren't necessary and may at times be a hindrance
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