'Plein Air Painting in Port'
This series of paintings is a continuation of a series that I did in 2023 where I explored and painting the interesting views around Port Stanley.
Capturing these views directly in situ seemed like a wonderful way to share my impressions of these stunning scenes so that you could enjoy them too!
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I have a new diy plein air box set up that I wanted to test so I thought starting with painting the view from my deck is a nice way to start. Here is a sketch of the view both in my little book and then on my prepared panel. I've painted this view many times over the years.
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This is the finished painting! I'm also going to be posting a video of the painting process on my You Tube channel, which is very cute since you can see all that's happening in the background with people and critters coming and going.
'Plein Air Painting'
"Plein air painting is all about the experience: getting out of the house, into nature, and engaging your senses," Warwick Goldswain
DEFINITION- plein-air[ pleyn-air;Frenchple-ner] - designating a painting executed out of doors and representing a direct response to the scene or subject in front of the artist.
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This is another deck view painting facing the other direction. I've never painted this side before as it's mostly trees and a gravel laneway. I started with a little sketch in the book to the right and then sketched it out larger on the orange panel same as the last painting.
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Here is the completed painting. I did have a glass of wine on the go ... my hubby was out at the sailing club so I decided to have a llttle private painting party with myself lol. I love how this painting turned out. It did take about three hours, but I was chatting with neighbours for part of the time.
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For this painting I left home and headed off to the Lions Landing Marina here in Port. I settled on this view since I liked the trees and the boats. Here is the initial sketch. I didn't do a mini sketch for this one.
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Here is the completed painting! I love how it turned out, just having that band of boats across the bottom and then the rest al trees. It's a composition that I've been using a lot lately with boat paintings. I enjoy the contrast between all the organic shapes and the manmade boat shapes.
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I headed to Pump House beach for this painting. I remembered this tree from a previous walk. It was a windy day so things looked very exciting with all the motion, lots of chop to the water. Surprisingly there was nobody at the beach the whole time I was painting... which ended being a couple hours. I did a little ad-libbing on the sky to add some interest since there wasn't much for clouds. I do love my made up version, it's a bit more dynamic.
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