Plein Air 18x24 Acrylic Peach & Beach Park - Gary Garrett Painting demo

Our First Coast Plein Air Painter's June 6, 2009 paintout was at the new Peach & Beach Park (geo:lat=30.278771701381338 geo:lon=-81.55258655548095) alongside Anders Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida. This is the road that I walked and bicycled to Windy Hill Elementary School in the late 1950s. I used to catch minnows, tadpoles and frogs in this lake as a child, and now it's a PARK! WOW! Today is wet with the possiblilty of more rain, so I am painting under the first pavilion at the park. It was just Rebekkah and I from our group today, but this is a 2-day paintout, so we may have more painters here tomorrow. The park is beautiful, a cool breeze, no bugs, simply a wonderful day to paint. My painting today is an 18x24 stretched canvas (had to tape cardboard on the back early on as the light coming through the canvas was too great). This is acrylic using TITANIUM WHITE, PRUSSIAN BLUE, PAYNES GRAY, CRIMSON, CAD RED, CAD YELLOW, YELLOW OCHRE and BURNT SIENNA. Early on, I mixed a pink from crimson & white that I kept wet with my mister and used that to tint much of the foreground vegetation. I wanted the distant trees and sky to really receed, so it has been wiped with papertowels and a blending brush to soften distant edges. To get more color into it, i added a few small red and some light blue flowers, and enhanced the few ochre trees that were there. The thunderstorm did come just as i was leaving, so I was unable to take the time to shoot pics of the scene I was painting ...



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