Airplane Gardens
October 30, 2013
Airplane Garden 6×6 2013_10_29
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My recent adventures yielded a new Airplane plant with lots of happy baby shoots. I have the perfect balcony niche for it to drape over.
I noticed it nestled into the evening shadows after sunset. The low light offered a nice opportunity to play with lost shapes and edges as well as colors. So I moved my Easy-L out on to the landing and started painting. I enjoyed pushing paint and working out color shifts. I love defining the shapes of wisps and floating tendrils with playful brushwork.
It was a fun stretch for daily painting.
Boggy Creek Farms
October 12, 2013
Today, I ventured out to Boggy Creek Farms. A local farm located in the east heart of down town Austin just off 7th street. The farm grows a large selection of veggies and greens as well as fresh eggs! Of course we can always find a variety of scenic spots to paint as well like neat garden patches, chicken coops, and parked tractors.
By paint out norms it was a very brief painting. More of a impressionable sketch of the garden statues.
Boggy Creek Farm Garden. 2013_10_12
This morning I offered to take my son along for painting too. We could share painting and time together. But the morning brought a few more challenges to consider. It was indeed a Boggy fall morning with muggy heat and swarms of mosquitoes lying in wait. *yes, that was with mosquito spray. I think they were immune or very hungry.
So out of self preservation, it was a very short paint out , but I am pleased with the expressive paint strokes.
A nice gesture to inspire another larger painting soon. Once I stop itching…
