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Saturday, June 09, 2007

Field Studies Continued

Bold River Afternoon, 6x8, oil

Summerwoods, 6x8, oil




Light from the East, 7x9.5, oil

Morning Sail, 7 x 9.5, oil


It's pouring rain today, but over the past week or so the weather has really been perfect, so here are three new pochades. (That's a French word, derived from the root for pocket, so literally a painting small enough to fit into your pocket!). I'm working on capturing the different qualities of light that occur at different times of day. The first one was begun at 6pm on a very sunny, clear day and the colors just seemed to come alive as the angle of th sun light dropped. The second was painted at 8:00am on a dry sunny morning and the glow in the new foliage of the trees was amazing. The third was begun at about 9:00 am on a sunny but very humid morning, temps were up near 85-90 degrees that morning and the light had a softer more diffused quality to it. This is basically the same scene as Morning Sail (which I posted below)from last week. Not standing in quite the same spot so things are shifted about some but what's really interesting is that although they were painted at the same time of day the weather was different and so was the quality of light. That's what is so fascinating about going back to the same place over and over again, it's never the same painting twice.






Posted by Jan Blencowe at 1:59 PM
Labels: hammonasset, landscape, plein air, trees, water

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