Plein Air Watercolor Sketching
En plein air watercolor painting or painting on site is one of the most beautiful ways of capturing the essence of nature s magnificent with brushes.
Plein air watercolor sketching. Next up was a view in a different direction looking towards a radar tower that serves the nearby blackpool airport. Here is a sketch of my full plein air sketching kit. History of plein air sketching. Plein air brush set it s a pleasure to partner with jack richeson co a family owned fine art supplier for several brush sets.
The plein air brush set contains a variety of round and flat brushes perfect for carrying in a small sketch bag. Plein air watercolour sketch 2. Plein air watercolour sketch 3. Itsy bitsy watercolour paper bundle arches 100 cotton cold pressed watercolor paper ideal for plein air and urban sketching gardeniafair from shop gardeniafair.
Of course i test out new tools and items change over. I love it because the kit stands up on its own and the brushes are always in easy reach. Plein air sketching. Not only does it present every small detail of the natural scapes in their most unfiltered raw and unadulterated form but being in the lap of nature while painting it brings the kind euphoria that is but rare to find in anything else.
My full plein air kit. This practice dates back to centuries ago as artists have long painted outdoors. Painted in an a4 moleskine watercolour folio. Therefore i work at sketching objects in a composition like people in motion cars on a street buildings in perspective landscapes atmosphere and so on.
En plein air or plein air sketching is an art where you experience painting and sketching beyond the walls of your classrooms. I was quite pleased with this sketch particularly some of the textures in the foreground. Petersburg watercolors 1 comment these days when so very much is so obviously at stake more even than usual it is sometimes a great solace to lose oneself in sketching a complex scene without too much regard for the. I do a lot of plein air painting in watercolor and one of my efforts in sketching is to discover what i would call the fingerprint of objects i paint most often.