Evening Front
8" x 10" oil on panel
I went out this past weekend in search of a place to paint. Sometimes that becomes the hardest part of plein air painting for me. I remembered this little pond area real close to town that is in a friends family. Its actually right behind the water treatment plant in Ashland, Ohio. It’s referred to as Cooper Lake. I have been really wanting to loosen up lately so when i saw the great color in the sky and the way it all broke up in the clouds from this front that was closing in on me, I decided to try using my pallete knife to capture that color. I enjoyed it so much that I wound up doing the entire painting that way. This way of painting will loosen you up in a hurry. I really liked this piece but i just tried to do a floral painting the other night with a pallete knife, and honestly, it wasn’t working out so well. Oh well, I will still try this pallete knife thing again.
Filed in Landscapes,oil 2 Comments so far
Lesley Spanos on 19 May 2009 at 10:39 am #
Really nice knife work, and the colors are perfect. I can imagine how effective all that texture is in person.
Crosshatch Studio » Crampton Art Show, Lakeside, Marblehead, Ohio on 16 Jul 2009 at 8:36 pm #
[...] with OPAS. The two paintings are posted below and have been posted here before. My painting called Evening Storm Front, which was done plein air at Cooper Lake in Ashland, won an award of merit for oil. I’m [...]