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Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on June 20, 2014 at 17:14

Thanks Dor. Stu

Comment by Dorian Aronson on June 20, 2014 at 17:13

I love it!  Fabulous Stu.  Congratulations on being comfortable with  alla prima, you have worked very hard and it shows.

Thank you so much for sharing everything in your Blog.  You are a perfectionist, everything is so clear.............You put your heart and soul into instructing us...............................Smiles......................

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on June 13, 2014 at 15:19

Thanks Deb.   This is pretty much my plein air style.   A lot looser than my studio paintings.  I have pretty much firmed it up this past year as I have become much more adept at painting alla prima.   Even my studio painting is a little looser with a lot more wet in wet painting.     My primary goals when I started painting outdoors over 7 years ago were to loosen up my technique and develop better color sense.  I was just trying to do some studies and develop studio paintings from them.   Little did I think that I would become totally addicted to painting outdoors or comfortable with alla prima techniques.   All this has also improved my studio paintings as well.   There is absolutely no substitute for brush miles.    Nice to hear from you.   Stu

Comment by deb hill on June 13, 2014 at 13:01

This is lovely...a little different style for you?

Comment by Jon Main on June 11, 2014 at 4:33

Looking forward to it too. You're sure right about the brush mileage, Stu!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on June 11, 2014 at 0:50

Thanks Ruby. The blog is almost done. Stu

Comment by Ruby on June 10, 2014 at 20:34

this is a beautiful painting Stuart - I look forward to your blog

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on June 10, 2014 at 19:50

Thanks Aurelia.  I am by no means an expert at using it, but I find it much
quicker at producing an accurate value map than squinting and creating a
thumbnail Notan and then laying out my sketch on the panel when I am painting
outdoors.  Stay tuned for my blog.   Stu

Comment by Aurelia Sieberhagen on June 10, 2014 at 18:47

Lovely painting.  Looking forward to your blog about the Value Viewer.  I have never used it and like to learn something new.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on June 10, 2014 at 18:16

Lori, it's the Value Viewer app.   I also have the Artist's Eye app, but have little experience with it.   I have been using value viewer more and for value driven design of my plein air paintings.   I will explain some of this and how to use value viewer in the blog that I will post here in the next day or so.   Thanks for your compliments on this painting.   It was very windy and I was hanging onto my pochade box with my left hand most of the time I was painting, but sometimes working faster (this took about an hour and a half) keeps me from overworking a painting.   This also is a fairly simple composition with only about seven different shapes; the sky, tall mountain, 3 rows of hills, the marsh and the water and when the values are massed, there are just 3 values.   That always makes a painting come out better.  This is the same area where Laura painted her Marin Meadow from, but she did not include the water, just the marsh.   Her painting also had very few value masses in it.  Stu  

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