I can't paint at all. But I would have liked to have tried a bit of it as I was growing up. Yesterday I spent the afternoon at an annual exhibition of Open Air art in our town here in Wexford
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my Arts Council runs a Plein Air no where as big as yours but with a mini festival at the end to award prizes and hopefully sell
our is a colorful area - old buildings - waterfront - some fantastic very very old trees that make me itch to try to capture them (trees are not easy)
the challenge of painting out doors is capturing the light - it keeps changing on you - by the end of my painting classes we were challenged to do it
you should paint for your own pleasure - just the joy of colors
the thing to remember are the words of my teacher - "We are not cameras They have invented those" and he was a classicist, painted literally - no Picasso he but we were to paint as we saw things - yes, we had to be more careful of our draughtsmanship - because he was
but you would not have to concern your self with "drawing it right" painting is all about bulk and color - big /little - bright/dark get a bit of paint and splash around
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no where as big as yours
but with a mini festival at the end to award prizes and hopefully sell
our is a colorful area - old buildings - waterfront - some fantastic very very old trees that make me itch to try to capture them
(trees are not easy)
the challenge of painting out doors is capturing the light - it keeps changing on you - by the end of my painting classes we were challenged to do it
you should paint for your own pleasure - just the joy of colors
the thing to remember are the words of my teacher - "We are not cameras They have invented those"
and he was a classicist, painted literally - no Picasso he
but we were to paint as we saw things - yes, we had to be more careful of our draughtsmanship - because he was
but you would not have to concern your self with "drawing it right"
painting is all about bulk and color - big /little - bright/dark
get a bit of paint and splash around
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