Painting two

This is unfinished - I put in the telegraph poles and etc. It was very fast to do - maybe an hour? A lady wanted to buy it - and I forgot to take a photo of it (too busy stuffing wads of cash into my pocket ;D )

My palette is a 'paint set' box (Lefranc and Bourgeois) - I ripped out the flimsy dividers and thus got a palette that closes with hinges and a handle - yay! It's normally even coloured (I clean it by spreading and wiping up the paint with a cloth - leaves some shade of neutral/grey. But when I use Liquin and let it dry I get these patches you see here which are bad news, of course!!

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Comment by Jon Main on October 19, 2013 at 21:46: Thanks, Jennifer - it was a plein air event - not many painters but lots of onlookers!

Comment by Jennifer Beaudet Zondervan on October 19, 2013 at 9:57: Congrats on your sale Michael! It looks like such a secluded place, where did she come from? haha:) Nice!

Comment by Jon Main on October 17, 2013 at 6:08: Silvana - thanks to you!

Manneherrin - it's oils with a bit of Liquin so it dries fast (between 3 hours and next day depending). I recommend a French half box easel - the full box like mine is unnecesarily big. It's always hard to get out - but always soooo worth it - go for it!

Anne -thanks for commenting - appreciated

Michael - it doesn't bother me to paint in front of people - I'm quite shy (well, yes, it's true!) - but once you've done it a few times. Helps it you're relaxed about it and just love what you're doing - have you found yourself in front of an audience?

Comment by Michael Chomse on October 17, 2013 at 0:04: You really chose a lovely composition. Easy on the eye. Warm and inviting palette, balanced. Nothing stressful about it, and you can walk down that sun-dappled road again and again in your mind. You'll end up in a different fantasy every time.

And as Manneherrin said, really encouraging: Painting plein air. Good! Painting plein air with an audience and not shaking with fear. Impressive! Painting plein air and selling on the spot. Priceless!

Comment by Ann Turner on October 16, 2013 at 20:15: Congratulations Jon, from what I can see it is a nice painting, sometimes the simple things are the best especially when doing Plein air. A lesson that I need to learn myself

Comment by Manneherrin on October 16, 2013 at 16:07: First question is is this acrylic? second one is wow, you have inspired me to do plein air and see what kind of reception I get from that.. I just got a new job so I can hopefully find a decen easle to drag around.. cant wait.. thank you for your inspiration. /hug

Comment by Silvana M Albano on October 16, 2013 at 12:33: Congratulations Jon! Happy for you! And... anything which is good will stay in your memory...!!!!

Comment by Jon Main on October 16, 2013 at 9:43: Thanks, Jen - like the oven cleaner tip - strong stuff, hey?! (acually, I just wipe off the piles of paint - that leaves a thin gray film of paint that is almost immediately dry - 30 sec job!)

Stu, - ok - I'm about to get a better camera than this dud one. Funnily enough I put the painting on a bigger sheet of white paper to put in the lady's car boot/trunk - just forgot I to photograph it - that painting will always be better in my memory on that it really was - the one that got away!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on October 16, 2013 at 8:56: Very nice Jon. Good job on the dappled light. Here's a tip. Take some nice white paper with you. Put your painting flat on the ground in the shade on that nice blacktop road with the white paper showing along an edge. Stand above your painting and shoot it.; take several photos with your digital camera; a point and shoot camera will work fine. You use the white paper on the edge for color correction in your photo editor and then crop it out; you can fix any skew in the photoeditor as well. That way you have a decent photo from the painting. Stu

Comment by Jen C r u d e n on October 16, 2013 at 7:33: Jon, This is very nice indeed. I zoomed in to look at your painting and perspective and colouring very good. Congrats on selling, bet the lady was pleased. What a pity - no photograph, but at least you have this one. Really like how you have photographed it on easel with exact picture following on to show between the two (similar to the one previous). Btw, if you do wish to clean your palette, and get rid of the dried paint, just spray with oven cleaner, leave a while, rub hard and will come off (sometimes may need to be done twice). Looking forward to seeing others like this