Plein Air Painting in a Frozen Field
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Hello there
Today we are plein air painting in a frozen, muddy field.
Sounds like fun? - it was! I was using oils on an old canvas with my French easel on this cold and quite windy morning, after a light dusting of snow.
I am particularly interested in the landscape around Carn Brea which is an ancient Neolithic settlement on a hilltop which dominates the area. This could develop into a long term project which I am quite excited about.
Hope you enjoy the video - please leave any questions etc in the 'Comments' and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
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Painting in those freezing conditions is dedication to your craft man. Very nice painting, you captured the scene perfectly
Thank you so much 😀
You’re a very resilient fellow Andrew. Most of us would have snapped a picture and (perhaps) added a brief pencil sketch and headed off for that coffee a lot earlier than you. Great effort and nice result! 😊
Thank you very much - the coffee went down well
Thank you so much for braving the cold to share this beautiful painting with us 😊
My pleasure 😊
I can’t believe how you can create such a beautiful painting from such an apparently ordinary scene!
Thank you very much. I love the ordinary, overlooked things
Lovely winter landscape of Carn Brea. A nice field of Cornish spring greens. Standing for that length of time in the cold while painting would have been a coffee well deserved . Enjoyed the previous video of Carn Brea. Nice work. Cheers 😊
Many thanks - glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for braving the weather for us! I loved watching you paint that…. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it linda. Thank you for your support 😃
Watched you on Sky LAOTY late night, love the program, your beautiful piece should have been in the top three.
Thank you! 😊
you can make anything beautiful even with hail and cold. Thanks so much
Thank you very much Suzanne
Another lovely painting and created under such extreme conditions....truly inspirational! Thank you for sharing and hope the coffee was nice and hot.
My grand daughter and I went plein air painting this morning.....first time for her....her easel broke and mine fell over breaking part of my pochade box!!
Cant blame the weather as it is Summer here, and everything is glued together again so we may try again tomorrow 😊 We both felt more enthusiastic again after watching your video. Thanks again, Jan
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Many thanks Jan - sorry to hear about your easel experiences. My French easel is very sturdy but rather heavy to carry around. All the best - Andrew
Thanks Andrew. My pochade box is very light, from Leon Holmes in Australia. It fixes to a light aluminium easel and I really love it. Anyway, glue is a wonderful thing....all fixed now!!! All the best - Jan
It wasn't just the texture of the canvas that fought you but also the old painting underneath. But still it turned out nicely and the underlying texture made it almost look like a pastel👍
Thanks Mike. It certainly took some covering
Nice work, Andrew.
Many thanks Bob
LAOTY unlucky kid my wife loved your charcoal piece it's not usually my thing but I thought it was brilliant well done, enter again Pete and Sue from Leigh.
Thanks Pete and Sue - I appreciate your support 👍
Hello Andrew.
Great video as ever. Thank you.☘️
Thank you very much Rosemary
A great effort Andrew, I'm far too fond of heat to try that at this time of year. You made a beautiful painting so quickly on an old canvas, bravo!
Many thanks Jan
Love it , great wee piece, well down …enjoyed this video very much, looking forward to the next
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching 😃
Your channel popped up in our feed. Love your work and your straightforward approach. Subscribed 👍
Awesome, thank you very much for your support
Just in from taking a church service and enjoyed the post with a mug of hot tea. You are a brave man and I hope you avoid frostbite or chilblains! A very instructive post about the red to use you medium to give paints fluidity in cold weather. Also interested to hear your reaction to painting on canvas as opposed to a board. On the Mastering Composition course we used the cheaper cotton covered boards for the studies and were encouraged to apply two or three coats of lesson primmer to fill in the 'potholes' (they re everywhere these days!!) of the canvas weave. This reduced the appearance of specks of light which ruined photographs of any work you had done.
You painting captured there day beautifully, the clarity of the air, the shafts of sunlight and the subtle colours of winter. Recent grey and stormy weather and short days depress everyone BUT there are incandescent winter days where the low sun and winter palette come into their own. I would not miss these days for the world!
Thank you so much Ian. We can appreciate the beautiful clear sunny days more when we’ve had lots of grey skies.
All the best
"Something like that"
Time to now hit it with some scratchy palette knife perhaps? Missed seeing Basil but I guess too near a busy road and a bit cold for him. Nice subject. 👍
Thank you so much - glad you enjoyed it. Too cold for Basil to be out all morning at his age
Cold, very brave, 16:50 lovely landscapes
Thanks for watching 😃
Your videos are so inspiring!!! Beautiful painting!!!
Thank you so much Birgit
Nice painting as usual. Love that landscape
Thank you so much 😀
LOL....my coffee just spilled-over. This video is an awesome feat. What artist are bring to the line today. You, Andrew Barrowman have captured what so many will not or can not explain. Thank you for sharing this one with us.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your support. It was great fun and the coffee afterwards was very well received
Andrew, if anyone inspires me to get out and paint, it's you. Lovely colourful picture. Thanks.
Wow, thank you very much Peter
Brilliant. I could feel the cold wind and hale. I can just about cope with rain but not snow! Fantastic picture.
Thank you very much - glad you enjoyed it 😃
Well done.
Thank you 😃
true soldier! good one!
Thank you 😃
🎉 nice painting sir !
Thank you so much 😀
Nice work 👍
Thanks 👍
Hey Andrew ! I liked the one you hided 😞
Thanks Jasmine. It was ok but I wasn’t completely happy with it so it went 😃
Hi Andrew.
Late in life and with more time, I have picked up a brush. I came across your channel recently and subscribed. I'm slowly going through your library of work and admire your dedication in some challenging conditions. I also enjoy what you do in the studio and especially like what you do with charcoal.
Now then, I've just watched the latest episode of Landscape Artist of the Year. Did I see you in the opening credits in a small harbour? Are you competing in an upcoming episode?
If so, did you win? I won't tell anyone, promise. 🤫
Atb, Paul
Hi Paul
thank you for your kind comments. Glad you are enjoying the videos - I currently have some charcoal work in the Pastel Society exhibition in London. My LAOTY heat will air on Sky Arts this Wednesday 31st January - hope you enjoy it
All the best
Andrew
Great painting Andrew won from a reused canvas and freezing conditions, very inspirational. Did you prep the suface of the old painting before using it again? I've had trouble mixing my oil paint inthis very cold weather is more medium the answer or is it time for a coffee?😀
Thank you Anita - I think the medium definitely helps (but not too much). I did add some clean linseed oil on the old painting surface to prep it (oiling out)
The charcoal drawing on the Landscape artist of the year what was the surface you used?
It was watercolour paper mounted on plywood
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Andrew, I'm as mean an old git as you could find if you sent out a search party, but - get yourself some new canvases, lad, for goodness' sake - it's murder trying to reckon with the colours and marks of an old painting, and you'll be lucky if it doesn't crack on you a bit further down the line. Tsk and tush, I say!
Mind you, if anyone can do it, you can: but I still think you need to flex the credit card in the direction of an art materials supplier.
Thanks Robert. I don’t do this too often fortunately with old canvases. This might peel off in a few years time but that’s ok - I enjoyed the moment 😃
Try standing on a piece of cardboard whilst you paint....
That’s a good idea - if I can remember the cardboard 😃
Well, it does fold easily to tuck into your pack....😊