Plein Air Painting Group

Palm Tree Study

2011-09-17T16:32:00.000-07:00

The South Carolina light seemed to turn this tree into a rainbow! It was one of those "must paint" moments :)

"Placid Waters" 14x11 Oil

2011-08-12T13:01:00.001-07:00

Found a pleasing area of the river towards evening,
the sky was bright, like light through ground
glass and the water was calm and peaceful.

2011-08-03T21:50:00.000-07:00

Painted this quickly (under 2 hours) at a place called green house. I had no idea what this place is but apparently it's some sort of art house.

2011-08-01T20:48:00.000-07:00

2011-07-29T15:00:00.000-07:00

2011-07-17T19:47:00.000-07:00

Kinda quiet round here but this is what I've been doing in the way of plein air painting lately. Just stuff around my neighborhood, haven't been very adventurous..

If anyone wants to paint together sometime lemme know!

2011-05-30T15:01:00.000-07:00

portrait of my friend Jesse about half way done

Winter in Hilton Head, SC

2011-05-10T14:14:00.000-07:00

2011-04-25T10:09:00.000-07:00

2011-04-10T21:21:00.000-07:00

this week's plein air paintings. These are 3"x5" and are awesome to learn how to simplify and focus on tones, shapes and color without the distraction of details. Not to mention they take no time at all to make; less than an hour a piece.

thanksgiving in new mexico

2010-11-29T07:47:00.000-08:00

cool red door

2010-11-14T14:15:00.000-08:00

2010-11-07T18:45:00.000-08:00

Plein Air painting at Mayfield Park.

Hilton Head Island

2010-09-21T09:25:00.001-07:00

This was done on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. :) I miss it there already!

2010-09-12T22:41:00.000-07:00

New medium, new challenge: Watercolors. It's a fun but difficult medium that requires a little planning. For example, when painting the white flower, you paint everything darker to make the flower look light. I love how the colors mix when the paint is wet. Using a towel to soak up the paint is also a good way of 'erasing'. This a great way of getting whites back after doing a wash like the clouds on the blue sky wash.

2010-09-02T23:28:00.001-07:00

Study at a coffee shop.

2010-09-01T13:10:00.000-07:00

Saturday night studies at rio rita on the east side. On the left is AJ Trahan.

Chicago night time sketch

2010-08-30T14:34:00.000-07:00

1-2 hour photoshop sketch whilst sitting on the roof of my mom's place in chicago last night. wish i had a good view of downtown, ah well. perspective issues aside, crits if ya got em please!

Rio Rita Night time painting

2010-08-28T21:53:00.000-07:00

2010-08-28T17:37:00.000-07:00

First watercolor of many to come.

2010-08-22T22:09:00.000-07:00

2010-08-08T17:18:00.000-07:00

6-11-10 plein air

2010-06-11T11:32:00.000-07:00

from today's plein air painting excursion at school. crits would be *much* appreciated!

thanks!

plein air 5-19-10

2010-05-20T10:44:00.000-07:00

hio everyone. this is from our plein air excursion at school yesterday. feel much better about this one than my previous, but still have a ways to go. was a blast either way!

crits if you got em, please!

2010-05-14T15:06:00.001-07:00

Did these last week at Hole in the wall on the drag.
not sure the first bands name but the second was my roomate's band Language Room

Pedernales Major 12x9

2010-05-07T18:06:00.000-07:00

I hope you enjoy my statement of the colors that can be found in cascading water
during a beautiful morning air.

plein air from 5-5-10

2010-05-06T10:44:00.000-07:00

my plein air painting from the other day. learned a ton, though. reminds me of a badly done impressionists' work. much practice needed.

crits, please!

spiderhouse

2010-04-22T00:37:00.000-07:00

Painting at Spiderhouse coffee shop in Austin

lake!

2010-04-06T00:20:00.000-07:00

It was a pleasure to spend some time painting at Stephen and Tiffany's lake last weekend. I decided to crop in close and just focus on my tones and design. Crits if you got 'em. Thanks :)

San Jose Plein air

2010-04-01T22:33:00.000-07:00

First time starting up plein air with oil.　Ｉ expected to fail hard haha, but I had a blast doing it. I couldn't get a good control with the color mixing and it would seem every time I put a new stroke down it would pick up the paint under and make my strokes muddy. Urg. Anyhow...Going to keep trying. Any recommended readings?

2010-03-28T14:35:00.000-07:00

Today's plein air painting at Riverside

mrrow

2010-03-23T20:54:00.000-07:00

The weather has been pretty fantastic lately. Thought I'd share a couple of sketches around the neighborhood. Crits are more than welcome, this shit is hard.

2010-03-21T22:31:00.000-07:00

Here's my latest plein air painting. I'm happy with the introduction of different colors in the shadows. Critiques are very welcome!

there's a bridge next to my house.

2010-03-17T14:52:00.000-07:00

okay, the drawing was plein air at least. Jordan, feel free to give this one a crit.

2010-03-09T21:49:00.000-08:00

Painting of the Littlefield Sculpture at UT campus and painting of the Driskill hotel on 6th street; apparently haunted.

12.25.9 Jay Moore study

2009-12-25T10:47:00.001-08:00

Reading Book

2009-12-20T21:30:00.000-08:00

Critiques are welcome. Thanks for looking!

study

2009-12-09T06:52:00.001-08:00

2009-12-08T12:13:00.001-08:00

Paintings from the Jeremy Lipking workshop

2009-12-08T12:08:00.000-08:00

Digital study

2009-12-05T16:56:00.000-08:00

Great work everybody!

Finally found some time to paint outside again. Crits welcome. Thanks!

2009-11-23T09:31:00.000-08:00

2009-11-21T16:58:00.000-08:00

Here is my painting done for Sketchcrawl day in Austin. It was done in the entrance of the UT Tower.

2009-11-13T18:22:00.001-08:00

wow jordan and AJ and brian and everyone!

;__; so much awesome stuff! sorry, I'm still far too much of a wussy to use real paint... but it's still fun with a laptop! View from Art Center Campus! Hopefully over winter break I can pick up the Pasadena Chapter a bit more, have a friend here who is completely destructive at landscapes.

2009-11-10T11:01:00.000-08:00

Here are two paintings done on UT campus. There is an infinite amount of cool shots to paint. I've been trying to focus on edges a bit more with these.

2009-11-09T11:20:00.000-08:00

Sundays painting

11.5.9 FallCreek

2009-11-05T13:52:00.001-08:00

20x16 Oil on linen

2009-11-04T09:16:00.000-08:00

2009-11-04T07:09:00.000-08:00

Rachel

2009-10-30T16:33:00.000-07:00

2009-10-30T00:03:00.000-07:00

Painting from last week's Saturday morning 9 to noon at the hancock center. I was trying something more focussed on chiaroscuro with a limited color palette.

2009-10-30T00:01:00.000-07:00

Painting Rachel.

2009-10-25T23:07:00.000-07:00

This is a painting at Mt.Bunnel.

Self Portrait

2009-10-25T19:03:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody. Thought I'd post this self portrait, I'm currently taking part in a life drawing/painting group up here in Nova Scotia, we meet once a week for 3 hrs. Its really nice to see all your works! Its inspiring...

2009-10-23T08:10:00.000-07:00

Portrait Painting Autumn

2009-10-23T01:29:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who came yesterday. It was a lot of fun. Oh and thank you to Tiffany for bringing snacks too!

Landscape:10.22.9

2009-10-22T12:32:00.000-07:00

2009-10-21T12:33:00.001-07:00

2009-10-20T23:35:00.000-07:00

A portrait of our friend Sam. Thank you for posing.

Portrait Painting Session

2009-10-20T08:54:00.000-07:00

We'll be hosting another 3 hour portrait painting pose tonight from 7 - 10 pm in the mini studio.

2810 hemphill park, apt. 428, 78705

Please email jordanworks@hotmail.com if you plan on coming so we can get a head count.
also, for those who come please call 512-350-9495 when you get here so we can open the gate for you.

Thanks.

2009-10-15T09:56:00.000-07:00

2009-10-15T09:54:00.001-07:00

Here is my 3 hr. painting.
It feels like i'm getting better at painting from life.
Can't wait for the next session!

Trip to Fire Island, NYC, and Conneticut!

2009-10-06T20:00:00.000-07:00

well...I got sllighhhtly closer to Austin...I was in the same country for a change! I did these while on a road trip with my Grandpa to visit my Uncles!

2009-10-04T15:21:00.000-07:00

Painting at the wildflower center. So two hours and twelve mosquito bites later, here's my painting! lol

jeremy mann: great cityscapes

2009-09-28T13:40:00.001-07:00

this guy works from photos but still really inspiring

2009-09-28T09:59:00.000-07:00

This was an exercise I tried painting almost exclusively with the palette knife.

Nature and Science Center

2009-09-23T00:18:00.000-07:00

The Nature and Science Center had many cool things to choose from. We'll definitely be going back for future Meetups. Thank you Tiffany for your suggestion.

South Congress Bridge View of Downtown Austin

2009-09-23T00:17:00.000-07:00

thumbnails from a crowded room

2009-09-22T14:48:00.001-07:00

experimenting with compositions and stuffs.

2009-09-21T16:40:00.000-07:00

Beside Iroquois Ridge HS in Oakville

2009-09-16T20:18:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick painting done near where my sister was playing softball (they lost, so sad!)

county line on the lake painting

2009-09-02T11:59:00.001-07:00

Barton Springs Pool

2009-09-01T11:06:00.001-07:00

Jordan's Mystical Vizage Apparates Above the Water

2009-08-30T09:53:00.000-07:00

Compliments of Miriam.

Also, something I did, which isn't quite as cool as a disembodied head.

2009-08-28T11:40:00.000-07:00

2009-08-28T08:52:00.000-07:00

2009-08-27T14:14:00.000-07:00

Painting videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E74zPtWnmNQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgTE1irdh3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjF5xb8e--Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLZQf3P2rkg

Albert Bierstadt

2009-08-27T13:34:00.000-07:00

http://www.albertbierstadt.org/

This is an amazing artist with very moody paintings.

2009-08-24T08:16:00.000-07:00

2009-08-20T11:35:00.000-07:00

more inspiration

Richard Schmid

Ryan Wurmser

Glenn Dean

2009-08-10T08:00:00.001-07:00

2 hr.
8 x 10 oil on canvas board

Missed the morning meet...

2009-08-08T17:06:00.000-07:00

But I did get out to watercolor at the place.

UT Clock Tower

2009-08-05T16:23:00.001-07:00

The changing light was a challenge as was the time constraint, but this is how we get better, right? =)

UT Tower

2009-08-05T09:19:00.000-07:00

2009-08-04T20:33:00.000-07:00

UT Tower
8x10 oil on canvas board

a tree.

2009-07-25T15:32:00.001-07:00

we got in the sunday paper!

2009-07-20T12:49:00.000-07:00

Inspirational watercolor artist Quem e Carcamo

2009-07-17T09:30:00.000-07:00

gcarcamo.blogspot.com

Breakers

2009-07-14T18:43:00.000-07:00

Here's an acrylic painting I did not far from Halifax Nova Scotia.

Foggy,wet and windy...

Watercolor at my parent's backyard, Killeen, TX.

2009-07-14T12:25:00.000-07:00

Completed this in about 1 1/2 hrs in the backyard of my parents up in Killeen. That's my brother's smoker.

I spent about 30 mins lightly drawing with pencil and then used the basic watercolor set to layer down the colors. The colors could be more accurate and I was rushed about half-way through to come and eat dinner. Not too shabby for my first piece, though.

As Joe said, you definitely learn to work in layers with watercolor. Its also much easier to work with outdoors than acrylics.

Something I learned about Arches Block: Don't remove the sheet from the block till you're done; else it will curl up from the moisture.

Botanical Garden

2009-07-14T07:33:00.000-07:00

This is my painting from last week's botanical garden. Sorry it took so long, I need to make a small touch up and let the oils dry before scanning it.

I didn't want this one to be about composition and perspective but rather about tone and hues. The real waterfall was much nicer!

2009-07-13T07:05:00.000-07:00

i need to do this
more often and get better

2009-07-13T00:09:00.000-07:00

Here is a digital one from today! Hopefully I will have more REAL paintings soon :P

-J

I like ink.

2009-07-12T16:55:00.000-07:00

Jordan was messing with his Ipod while I was sketching that last one, and thus he became a compositional element.

Inspirational artist Jeremy Lipking

2009-07-09T12:21:00.000-07:00

www.jeremylipking.blogspot.com
www.lipking.com

2009-07-06T07:14:00.001-07:00

Jordan looking like he is about to die of heat exhaustion
and my painting with a little photoshop love

Plein Oakville Air

2009-07-05T17:12:00.000-07:00

I wasn't able to get out and paint...but I did manage to squeeze in a quick trip to my backyard!

2009-07-05T11:24:00.000-07:00

here is mine from last week with a few touch ups in photoshop

Poolside Plein Air

2009-07-03T13:08:00.000-07:00

Hey there, everybody. I'm Jim Perry. I just got invited to join this blog, so I went down to my neighborhood pool with my gouache palette. Completion time was an hour and a half.

2009-07-02T10:36:00.001-07:00

Thanks to Jordan for the invite here! I suppose I'm the Pasadena chapter! These are a few from earlier this year, small size with acrylic and white gouache and one digital: