Before I forget, check out Katherine Tyrrell's new link browser Squidoo and the wonderful links she has for sketching and drawing, pastels and colored pencil. She is incredibly organized.
I first did a sketch when I finished my coffee for the Hunt. #8 and 9 - something you step on, porch and mat, and #10 and 11 something open and something plastic, the trash can. I started to sketch it closed and you see the change in plan when I remembered I needed something open. Whew... one more done.
I actually did a plein air acrylic today. It is 9 x 12 of the old Kennecott towers/smoke stacks in Hurley, New Mexico, about 15 miles from the house. They are scheduled to be toppled and demolished nesxt year so a last of these landmarks. The mine now belongs to Chino. One went up in 1939 and is 500 ft tall, and the other is 625 ft. tall and built in 1967. I need to put an "idea" of letters on the left one and a brace or pipe of some sort on the right and taller one, otherwise it is about done. I used Liquitex acrylics, ultramarine blue, cadmium red, cadmium yellow medium, and burnt umber - hookers green (Dick Blick), titanium white (Daler-Rowney), and yellow ochre (Windsor Newton). I like the result, although acrylics dry a little darker than one expects. I try to compensate, but the dark trees are a little dark. Experience will help. I haven't been working with acrylics except on vacation and so ....
It was a beautiful day at the time, the rain clouds building. Flowers everywhere brought on my the rain. Gene was on his bike. I started this about 11:00 a.m. and finished about 1:05 p.m. When painting plein air, the light, clouds and atmosphere change so rapidly that two hours is about it for one scene. I picked Gene up about 25 miles down the road and we went to Deming, just a few more miles, to check out the golf course. It looks like a typical small town course, flat and back and forth. We probably won't play there unless we are desperate. :) It has been raining since we got 'home'. We are getting ready to travel tomorrow. Pick up son, Larry, in El Paso and have a golf week. More blog, down the road.........
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