Ranch Land Plein Air

Sues RAnchWe were able to do some ranch land plein air painting near Hauser Lake on Saturday afternoon. We had a good time. All enjoyed the view from Sue’s house and pasture lands. There was abundant pasture, livestock, tractors, and heavily wooded hills to choose from.

Hauser Ranch CreekI began by walking down to right next to the creek. After setting up for a little while in the direct sun I found that I did not have the stamina to continue kneeling next to the log.  A conversation with my knees cut it short to rescue my knee joints and escape the heat.

Trees off of the deckNext, I set up in the comfort of her upper deck and just fell in love with the way the light was on her trees.

People from the Inland Northwest Outdoor Painting Group were invited. Others were there from the Spokane Watercolors Member Group (must be a member) and the Spokane Sketchers too. If you would like to know, when the next plein air event date is set, please check out the Inland Northwest Outdoor Painting Group mentioned above.

Visiting with the other artists there was a lot of fun. Everyone getting together at the end of the day to do a little show-and-tell was inspiring. There were so many gorgeous views I had to take a lot of photographs to work on later. The other artists were doing the same.

All-in-all it was a great way to spend my Saturday. The next event is Rimrock View Palisades Park, Spokane next Saturday.

 

Life Drawing Session

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The Monday Night 3 hour Life Drawing Session was on the 13th over at Terry Lee’s studio in Coeur d’Alene ID. This model has great bone structure, deep skin tones, and marvelously shaped eyes and lips. She was a pleasure to draw and I look forward to painting her later in my studio later from pictures taken.

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Our model did a portrait pose for three hours which gives us a lot of time to work on getting a likeness. She did not actually sit in the same position for three hours straight. I think it was 30-minute sets with breaks so she could stretch and move around. Then she simply takes the same position after the break so we can continue where we left off.

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First, I did a pencil drawing and then a monochrome watercolor using Paynes Grey. I was not able to do anything stellar but am happy with the likeness achieved in pencil for the results of the evening. I gave the pencil sketch to the model at the end of the evening.

Terry Lee is discontinuing these artist get-togethers for the winter and plans to start them up again in April 2022 if enough of the artists commit to attending. I sure am going to miss this, there is nothing better than being able to get together with a group of other artists and work on improving your skills together.