Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Garden was the site of the third Saturday plein air excursion last week. The botanical garden featured cobalt blue pots with lavender-painted curly willow, violas, and white tulips contrasting with the […]
Category Archives: Plein Air
Hunting Island Palms
This small painting was created on location at Hunting Island State Park. I used a thin wash of gold and lavender gray to suggest filtered sunlight and trees in the background and painted the palms […]
Hunting Island Path
This small painting is from a wonderful trip to South Carolina’s Hunting Island State Park this past weekend. It is painted on rough paper using fluid acrylics in a watercolor technique.
Salt Marsh
Continuing my low country theme, this weekend I finished a piece I started on location at a Georgia salt marsh in October.
Kiawah Morning
This past weekend Barbara Yongue and I participated a paintout in Charleston on Saturday and on Kiawah Island on Sunday. We had a peaceful, shady place to paint on a dock out over the marsh. […]
Bugville Weekend
Guest post by Barbara Yongue This Halloween weekend 12 Columbia,SC artists partook of the open road and ventured to a place in coastal Georgia affectionally known as Bugville (Fort McAllister State Park). While many of […]
How Long Did It Take You To Paint That?
That question always takes me by surprise because I lose track of time when I’m painting. Also, I know that my best paintings come together quickly and easily, and that a long struggle rarely […]
Outgrown
This past Saturday, the About Face plein air group painted at an old house with big trees off Farrow Road between subdivision construction and huge new car dealerships on Killian Road. It was a rare […]
What Is A Plein Air Frame?
Have you seen a description of a painting as framed in a “plein air” style frame and wondered what that meant? Plein air painting is done “in the open air” or “outdoors”. Because time is […]
What to Pack?
It’s almost time to pack art supplies for the summer travel season. Where are you going this summer? Where is your favorite place to paint? What sort of kit do you pack? I’m excited to […]