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August 6, 2014 at 6:55 am #992134
Barry often travels around to world to find subject matter for his plein air paintings. His favourite places to paint are Tuscany, Italy, and China. This is a sunset painting he did in Hunan, China earlier this year:
August 6, 2014 at 7:03 am #1209388Here is of Barry’s sketches that he did while he was in Australia in May. It was a beautiful evening and the setting sun made a lovely silhouette pattern of the trees. It is always important to capture the “itness” of the trees and rocks in the landscape you are painting, or it will not look authentic.
See his online art course at VirtualArtAcademy.com[/URL] for more information on how to capture “itness”.
February 28, 2016 at 8:21 pm #1209389October 27, 2016 at 7:37 am #1209353
Moody Evening, Garrapata, Big Sur – 16in x 20in – Oil on CanvasThis is a plein air painting I did on my recent trip to California and the Big Sur Coastline. This was one of my favorite places to paint during my time living in California. I was originally hoping for an evening of shimmering light on the water, but the actual evening developed in a very different direction. There was a faint sliver of light on the horizon where the sun was setting beneath a band of clouds. In the end I liked this effect since it let me concentrate on the emerald green hues in the water and their contrast with some of the rich oranges in the foreground vegetation.
If you look closely at the painting, you will see that I am using a combination of watercolor techniques such as thin washes, as well as impasto oil painting techniques. This is something I have been experimenting with in some of my recent work. It may have some relation to my exposure these days to the work of several traditional Chinese painting masters during my work in China.
December 1, 2016 at 4:09 am #1209354This is the plein air painting setup I was using on my recent painting trip to Mauritius. I am using a Mastersen seal palette box mounted onto a tripod using an Easel Butler. I put the palette in a big freezer overnight to slow down the drying of the paint. This system gave me much more palette mixing area to work with, which I find helps with finding a good color harmony.
December 20, 2016 at 7:25 am #1209387I like your strokes. Good scene!
Comments and critics welcome. I want to progress!
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https://maryse.rochette.ccDecember 21, 2016 at 5:42 am #1209355
I painted this in the gardens outside the Villa Borghese in Rome. It is a beautiful museum to go to if you get the chance, with some wonderful sculptures by Bernini. In this painting I used the key discovery of color pairs.August 15, 2017 at 8:27 am #1209356Finished 24″ x 24″ oil. I did the first version (60cm x 80cm) plein air in Zhaosu, Xinjiang, China last fall (sheltering in the shade of a tree in front of their house, hence the wall shadows!). But I re-thought the composition and did this one in the studio, this time adding the two children to give the painting a story.
September 4, 2017 at 8:56 am #1209357I spent many evenings on the high grass plains of Xinjiang in China watching the beautiful sunsets. Here is a painting of a sunset inspired by one of those wonderful evenings.
The detail shows some of the colors I used for the sunset, and the paint texture.
(for a detailed discussion of paint texture and blending, see the article I wrote for the Virtual Art Academy in the oil painting techniques section – http://virtualartacademy.com/oil-painting-techniques-avoid-over-blending.html).
November 3, 2017 at 7:15 am #1209358On the way down after crossing a 13,000 foot mountain pass over Laji mountain on the way to Gande from Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province in China, we came across a beautiful valleyview and just had to stop to do a small oil painting sketch.
November 15, 2017 at 6:59 am #1209359Here’s a painting I did during a workshop I held this spring in the Peak District. I remember it being between 11:00 and 2:00 in full sun with no umbrella. At 29 in the shade, I think it was 39 in the sun! Who moved England to the Mediterranean?
I share some videos and more tips on my Facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/virtualartacademycom
December 13, 2017 at 7:59 am #1209360
On account of its high altitude, the light in Xinjiang in China is even more intense than that of California or Tuscany where I have a studio. It was around midday and very hot when I was painting in this small Kasakh village, so I hid behind a large wall to get out of the heat. The village is as yet undeveloped and still has many original mud and straw buildings which give it a warm and welcoming feeling.If you are interested in the color harmony I used, see this painting technique explanation below:
https://www.virtualartacademy.com/oil-painting-techniques-secondary-color-harmony
December 20, 2017 at 5:08 am #1209361
This summer I did a painting expedition to Qinghai, a largely Tibetan province in north western China. There was a Buddhist festival taking place with a temporary tent town of tens of thousands of Tibetans. There were some great compositions with the brightly colored clothing and tents.January 24, 2018 at 6:59 am #1209362
On my painting expedition to Qinghai in north western China the time I liked best to paint was late in the afternoon or early in the morning. Here we got up early just as people were starting to move around the tent city at the Buddhist festival that was taking place.January 29, 2018 at 10:48 am #1209363In Golog there is a large Buddhist temple complex. It is quite a challenge to find a composition because of the complexity of the architecture. Qinghai province, China.
Painting is: Cat. No. 1193 Qinghai Maqin Larasi Temple
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