Plein Air and Inktober
Here is today’s plein air painting. My friend Joan and I went to a farm/produce stand in Eastport. When I realized that I could be losing my subjects due to sale, I had to quickly get them done before they went bye-bye. The skinny yellow one in the back had this huge stem for such a skinny pumpkin. The owner and staff were baking on the premises and OMIGOD it smelled awesome.
Also, Inktober Day 30
Inktober and plein air
Inktober Day 28
Plein air and Inktober
This is a plein air study I did today and my Inktober (Day 27) submissions are the three thumbnails done in, you guessed it, ink. I am submitting them because although they aren’t the glamorous ink counterparts, thumbnail studies are the tugboat of the art world….they are small, look insignificant but they pull a heavy load by being a supporting cast to a finished painting. As you can see if he three studies, my first visions of the painting I had in mind changed with the third thumbnail and I liked it so much it became the finished product.
Today’s Inktober and home made stamps
Inktober Day 24
Inktober Day 23
Inktober Day 21 and Graveyard Challenge
This is my Graveyard Challenge. I’ll do the 30 min painting later….the challenge was you had to use only three colors and it had to be plein air. You were permitted a 4th color as an underpainting (I used Daniel Smith’s Quinacridone Gold watercolor). I used Ultramarine Blue, yellow ochre and green gouache in a Moleskine watercolor sketchbook…..also my #inktober Day 21 sketch is the other photo and was done in my homemade accordion sketchbook.











