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Plein Air painting

  • 21-11-2013 10:59pm
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    megaten
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    I'm doing an online course at the moment and one of the upcoming assignments is plein air painting. If I've never painted before what are some of the best mediums in terms of getting started and portability?


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    Tiriel
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    There's a fantastic bunch of people in Ireland that are part of this website - http://pleineire.ning.com/ - it's a really good resource and they post up their work, kind of a community.

    They also run a festival each year in Wexford, called the Art in the Open Festival - it's really good - keep your eye on the site for registration, highly recommended. They run workshops and talks throughout the festival, well worth attending if you can. I usually go down for a week if I can, but if not the weekend :)


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    donegal__road
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    megaten wrote: »
    I'm doing an online course at the moment and one of the upcoming assignments is plein air painting. If I've never painted before what are some of the best mediums in terms of getting started and portability?


    Hi, I paint plein air quite a bit, Im also a member of pleineire website.

    What I do is paint from the boot of my car. I use 2 palettes which I place on the floor of the boot, one palette is for mixing sky colours, the other is for terrain colours. I use polyrib for the palettes.. (election posters are made from this material).

    I tend to work large when painting plein air, 4' x 3' or smaller.. the largest size that will fit in the car. If you are experimenting, dont run out out and buy expensive large canvases. I have done many paintings on MDF cover sheets from local hardware shops.. they are usually round 4' x 3' size and they probably wont charge you. Prime the MDF sheet with a 2:1 mix of emulsion paint to PVA glue.

    When the emulsion/pva primer is dry, I usually stain the sheet with a coat of brownish red oil or acrylic paint using a rag. If your using oil, use white spirits, acrylics are water based. This will mean you wont be working directly onto a white surface which is not recommended as white is too stark.

    If you are new to oil painting, Id suggest buying the 3 primary colours and white.. cadmium red, cobalt blue, and cadmium yellow or lemon yellow. You could prbably get away with buying the small sizes for the 3 primarys, but you'll need a large tube of white.. the white might set you back €10, the smaller tubes are approx €5.

    If your painting is a once-off exercise and you dont want to go to expense, then maybe use washes of food colouring and draw on top of the areas of colour with dark acrylic paint using a brush.


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