MARK’S ARTIST TIPS – July 2009
I always advise beginning artist to get a foundation by drawing from live models on how well your achieving a likeness, gesture ,portraiture, and drapery, nude models , in a big way, you learn about cropping/design. value, perspective and different media, it also charts your progress by giving youand it builds your confidence as time goes on . wither you work in abstract or representational , it helps build a good foundation.
SUGGESTION: Look for classes called LIFE DRAWING which indicates a live model.
And if you can’t find one or are tight on cash, find an event such as a live jam session or something where people are in once place for at least an hour.
winning bidder Jody and Patricia Kadokawa for my painting of the Royal
More photos from the event
(A) Reception at Ho’omaluhia (B) KCC Counselor Joe Yoshida @ Baby Makapu’u
(C) Manny & Tina Manendez with artist (D) Queens Hospital Pharamcist Mike Wong
and new painting purchase for there
renovated Hawaii Kai Home
(E) 36″ x 48″ oil painting “Punahou Paddlers ” (F) Class at Baby Makapu’u
sold at Punahou Carnival
(G) Art Student Luz Brand from Columbia with her (H) Instructor & art students& fellow country people
En plein air is a French expression which means “in the open air”, and is particularly used to describe the act of painting in the outside environment rather than indoors (such as in a studio).
Artists have long painted outdoors, but in the mid-1800s working in natural light became particularly important to the Barbizon school and Impressionism.
The popularity of painting en plein air increased with introduction in the 1870s of paints in tubes (resembling modern toothpaste tubes).
Previously, each painter made their own paints by grinding and mixing dry pigment powders with linseed oil. The Newlyn School in England is considered another major location of such painting in the latter 19th century.
French Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir advocated en plein air painting, and much of their work was done outdoors.
American Impressionists, too, such as of the Old Lyme school, were avid painters en plein air.
In the second half of 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in Russia, painters such as Vasily Polenov, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin and I.E. Grabar were known for painting en plein air.
The popularity of outdoor painting has remained constant throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century.
