After work on Thursday night, I painted with some artist friends from the Sykesville artist club. Wiley is the head personality of the club, and he organized the paint out at the river outside of historic Sykesville.
It was a hot day, so to go down into the shade of the river trees was welcome. Since I got there around 6 PM, I knew I had only about an hour and a half or maybe two hours before the light got so dark that I wouldn't be able to paint effectively. I could spend an hour just deciding on what to paint, so I made a quick choice and basically painted the first interesting scene I saw, the turn in the river where dead trees and branches piled up.
I sketched it quickly and broadly in charcoal and began to scrumble the first layers of paint. I started with the blue sky area; I added more sky than was actually visible since I thought it would have made the picture more interesting. Then I put down the first thin layers of greens with a wide brush. I used the same wide brush to put down the tans and browns of the rocks and the muddy darkness of the water. After a bit, I decided to go against my normal inclination and mix black into the darker areas. I kept on adding layers and details to the picture and began to move through my inventory of brushes to smaller and smaller until I was using a liner brush for the finer details. My last step was to work with a lot of white to the colors and, in some places, to use only white for accent.
It was getting dark, and I was beginning to feel that I was just reworking some details over and over, so I knew it was time to call it done. The other artist was packing up and beginning to go too. It was a wonderful time painting, and I feel pretty good about the picture.
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It was a hot day, so to go down into the shade of the river trees was welcome. Since I got there around 6 PM, I knew I had only about an hour and a half or maybe two hours before the light got so dark that I wouldn't be able to paint effectively. I could spend an hour just deciding on what to paint, so I made a quick choice and basically painted the first interesting scene I saw, the turn in the river where dead trees and branches piled up.
I sketched it quickly and broadly in charcoal and began to scrumble the first layers of paint. I started with the blue sky area; I added more sky than was actually visible since I thought it would have made the picture more interesting. Then I put down the first thin layers of greens with a wide brush. I used the same wide brush to put down the tans and browns of the rocks and the muddy darkness of the water. After a bit, I decided to go against my normal inclination and mix black into the darker areas. I kept on adding layers and details to the picture and began to move through my inventory of brushes to smaller and smaller until I was using a liner brush for the finer details. My last step was to work with a lot of white to the colors and, in some places, to use only white for accent.
It was getting dark, and I was beginning to feel that I was just reworking some details over and over, so I knew it was time to call it done. The other artist was packing up and beginning to go too. It was a wonderful time painting, and I feel pretty good about the picture.
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| River By Sykesville, Painting on location, Plein Aire by Adron. |
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(c) Adron
