I promised you more Plein Air pieces and here they are:
"Pier 22 Annapolis Docks" a 8 X 6" Colored Pencil on Ampersand Pastelboard completed during a weekend workshop on location at the docks. My BFF and fellow plein air junkie, Kathy Scott also worked at this view in her native oil paints.
In Sept. we attended a plein air workshop from Oil Painter - Barbara Nuss who's book on Composition we both own and hold in high regard. Which can be purchased from her at her website HERE or at a Barnes and Nobles.
Now again most workshops I attend in plein air are for other media, not colored pencil. But I always feel you can learn from other artists in their approach and palette. I just translate in my head the colors they mix or demonstrate into my well known Prismacolor shades. Black Grape, Moss green etc.
The view across from the main dock area was in constant motion. The large sail boat Woodwind II from my piece, came and went in the 4 hours we painted in the sun. A large bay charter boat came and went from slip 22 every hour and a half. Blocking our view and making us move our set up spot initially. But such are the perils of working in the fresh air!
The above shown pieces were from our second day of the workshop, Sunday. On the prior day, Saturday we watched a demo Barbara completed from the window of the Quiet Waters State Park in Annapolis, MD, while we waited for the rain to clear. Then it was out to the South River view to take it on for ourselves.
So my "South River View" an 8 X 8" Colored Pencil on Ampersand Pastelboard came to be. Now again, my colored pencil works are usually near 75% complete on location, with the build up of layers and saturation of color added afterward.
We concluded our trip to Maryland with a detour thru Chads Ford, PA to see the homes and studios of N. C. Wyeth and his son Andrew. What a treat!
I do have a few more works yet to see the finishing touches from other 2014 plein air adventures in CP.
Stay tuned!
Gloria
