Plein Aire painting is a joy and an aggravation. The serendipity of centering a mosquito right in the middle of a divine splooch of yellow and green, the popping and groaning of joints when you sit on the cold hard ground, the approval or disapproval of onlooking squirrels, crows and people. The sweet person who wants to tell you all about how his mother used to paint (before she had all those demanding children and a grumpy husband).
There is an energy that goes back and forth between the painter and the actual landscape that, on good days when the planets are in proper arrangement, practically vibrates on the paper. It's fast and loose (mostly loose), so you are never sure what you will arrive at. You also get the whole spectrum......the sounds and smells and textures that you never get from the lovely but dead photograph. This embeds the memory forever, and when you are drowsing at the edge of sleep , the vision of this experience will accompany you to your dreams.
I still remember, in 1969, painting at the edge of the Hein Palace lake in Kyoto. I was looking across a bed of iris, across the shimmering lake, to the incredible delicate Hein Temple. The purple haze of the iris bed, the dragonflies skimming the lake and the polite whispers of the Japanese behind me..."Ah so, des ka" they murmured.
So, I sigue into An Event going on in the World and Seattle..........
Paint Seattle / Worldwide Plein Air Paint Out / Call to Artists
Seattle joins the world for Paint Seattle, part of the Worldwide Plein Air Paint Out from September 11 -13, 2009. Plein air artists are invited to create their art on site throughout the city as artists around the world simultaneously paint plein air.
Deadline: 9/7/09
Details:
Seattle joins the world for Paint Seattle, a part of the Worldwide Plein Air Paint Out from September 11 -13, 2009. Plein air artists are invited to create their art on site throughout the city as artists around the world simultaneously paint plein air.
Artists wishing to participate in Paint Seattle should complete the registration process on the Walking on Water Gallery and Studios website. There is no fee. Artists will be included on the Paintout Map and can show in the Gallery on Sunday at the Artist's Reception and Exhibition from 3-6pm at 4333 Fremont Ave N, Seattle. 16 to 20 works will be selected by Walking on Water and be displayed until October 13. All art during this event must be created in 'plein air' during the three-day event.
For more information and to register visit:
http://walkingonwaterfremont.com/
Deadline: September, 7, 2009
I plan to be down, for this event, at Lincoln Park again, painting away. I'll try to be more specific on where I'll be if you contact me via e-mail. Feel free to join me. No instruction or conversation. Just being a Tree, or the spangled leaves or a patch of glorious weeds, and splodging and flailing away with paint and abandon.
And! Watercolor classes Will Resume at CandP Coffee House..6pm to 9pm on September 8...will go in units of 6 classes for $120. Contact me if you plan to attend so I can arrange for tables and I'll send you the details and Materials list Come one, come all. See ya.
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