Plein Air painting – Andre Krigar, Berlin

Friday, den 17. February 2012

Andre Krigar is a painter in Berlin. This video is one of the better ones on plein air painting. share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share with Stumblers Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

George Rowlett painting at the abyss of abstraction – plein air video

Monday, den 26. December 2011

George Rowlett is one of my favorite plein air painters. His Gallery has put up two videos showing the artist at work painting on the Outer Hebrides and East Kent earlier in March this year. In an older interview the artists said that he tries to paint as fast as he can. If you compare [...]

What is the connection between banking and (plein air) art?

Thursday, den 10. November 2011

I was amused by a recent blogpost about the ING Art Collection. Somehow I did not get no further clue what the connection between banks and artists is other than what I knew already but wasn’t said in the post : The artists want the money and the banks want public relation. What I understood [...]

Robert Perry landscapes in gouache

Tuesday, den 30. August 2011

Recently I stumbled on the website of Robert Perry,a British landscape painter who works in gouache. Mr. Perry has published an impressive video which shows him in action on location handling a large format gouache painting. In 1993 Mr. Perry put down his job as a teacher and became a full-time artist to support himself [...]

Plein Air painting still alive – Ray Atkins

Friday, den 15. July 2011

As a fan of George Rowlett I found my way to the website of the London Artspace Gallery some years ago. I want to point out to a marvelous online catalogue the gallery put up to feature the painter Ray Atkins. Plein air painting is alive still! Here is the link to Ray Atkins, The [...]

Spring landscape – painting with linocut colours

Tuesday, den 24. May 2011

Buy this painting as postcard on Zazzle Recently I found the water soluble linocut colours by Schmincke in the local art supply store. I could not resist to buy a basic set of magenta,yellow,blue,ochre,sepia and black. The colors are 4 times as expensive as the Schmincke academy gouache. The colors I selected have a minimum [...]