Plein Air 18x24 Acrylic Peach & Beach Park - Gary Garrett Painting demo

Our First Coast Plein Air Painter's June 6, 2009 paintout was at the new Peach & Beach Park (geo:lat=30.278771701381338 geo:lon=-81.55258655548095) alongside Anders Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida. This is the road that I walked and bicycled to Windy Hill Elementary School in the late 1950s. I used to catch minnows, tadpoles and frogs in this lake as a child, and now it's a PARK! WOW! Today is wet with the possiblilty of more rain, so I am painting under the first pavilion at the park. It was just Rebekkah and I from our group today, but this is a 2-day paintout, so we may have more painters here tomorrow. The park is beautiful, a cool breeze, no bugs, simply a wonderful day to paint.

My painting today is an 18x24 stretched canvas (had to tape cardboard on the back early on as the light coming through the canvas was too great). This is acrylic using TITANIUM WHITE, PRUSSIAN BLUE, PAYNES GRAY, CRIMSON, CAD RED, CAD YELLOW, YELLOW OCHRE and BURNT SIENNA. Early on, I mixed a pink from crimson & white that I kept wet with my mister and used that to tint much of the foreground vegetation. I wanted the distant trees and sky to really receed, so it has been wiped with papertowels and a blending brush to soften distant edges. To get more color into it, i added a few small red and some light blue flowers, and enhanced the few ochre trees that were there. The thunderstorm did come just as i was leaving, so I was unable to take the time to shoot pics of the scene I was painting. The Park sign at the start of the video was shot on a scouting trip several weeks ago. WORK FAST AND DELIBERATE... THE ENERGY IS CAPTURED IN YOUR PAINTINGS!

The music is a soundtrack that came with my video editor mixed witht the natural sounds on the tape as well as my recordings of the natural sounds from the area.

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[GaryGarrett]

Thanks for watching. I experiment on all kinds of surfaces, but when I paint plein air, I travel as light as possible and stretched canvases are as light as you can get. I frame everything that I put into the galleries. I like the frames at Hobby Lobby when they have their 50% off sales. Have fun painting!

[boodo168]

Thank you so much. I like the Heavy B. Liquitex also but have just ordered some Tri Art acrylics as I'm being told they handle a lot like oils... we'll see. I have a fine mist atomizer but only two blending brushes. I also paint on masonite most of the time now although have used stretched canvas a lot in the past. I will certainly try your suggestions. Thanks again. Diana

[GaryGarrett]

@boodo168 aaaah... masonite! good stuff BUT it aborbs more moisture from the paint, so hit it with several coats of a really good brand of gesso (Bob Ross is an excellent gesso) to help isolate the masonite. A small 6" roller makes it easy to apply and clean up. And.. before you paint your first stroke, wet it down, let it sit 15 minutes, then wet it again. This keeps the masonite from sucking up all the paint's moisture. Let me know about the Tri Acrylics... I haven't tried them... Thanks!

[boodo168]

I am curious which brand of acrylics you use. I can't seem to make the blending brush work because the paint dries too fast, even if I spray it with my atomizer. I appreciate your talent very much and learned from watching you.

[GaryGarrett]

@boodo168 --- Hi, I like the Heavy Body Liquitex as it has a lot more pigment in it. If I am going to use the blending brush with acrylics, I spray the area with clean water, apply the paint quickly and blend quickly, then clean the blender brush. I carry 5 blenders with me so that one can be drying while using another. Also, try to get an atomizer that produces an extremely fine mist.... many just spray water droplets. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching

[timeanagain]

Its an ok painting I suppose. Think you made an obvious mistake by making the sky too dark a value to begin with throwing off all of the rest of the values in the process. The ground plane is clearly too dark based on the light of the day. IMO.

[GaryGarrett]

@timeanagain ....Thanks for watching and your expertise. One must remember that this is a video on a computer monitor and you are not seeing the actual painting. This painting has won several awards. Also, I saw that to date, you have not ventured to upload your own work, so I must take your comments lightly. Many who feel they cannot do are critical of those who can and those who risk it. May God bless you and again, thank you for watching

[MissNatsukiKuga]

Impressive

[kghoseawon]

Its fantanstic.You taught me a lot.God bless you.Amen

[smargaretw]

I think that this is a very pretty painting. Do you like working on pre-stretched canvases mostly? Do you ever frame your work? I hear that that is quite expensive.

[keckvan66]

amazing how american painters differ from european... the bob ross legacy i guess...

[beachgirl22100]

Hi,

I have been painting for about 1 year. I like your painting and "timeanagain's" statement wasn't very nice. Your technique is great. I am trying to be a "looser" painter and am getting there but I am still fall into the slow, trying to be too accurate, pace. I did stained glass for years and wanted to do something new. I love it.

[Cre8iveSignWorks]

@GaryGarrett

yeah, good point gary!

ya get all these pathetic smart arses telling others what to do, like they are the expert, but they never have the courage to upload any of their own work to put on show for the world to see and comment on. i think you handled it very well, as i probably would not have been so nice back to him!

i thought it a truely fabulous painting....but im no expert (like ''timeanagain'') lol

[julesinpr]

Fabulous... ....just would have liked to see what you were painting from....

Thanks so much

[boodo168]

Hi, Gary... I just wanted to let you know that I got the Tri Art acrylics (their best quality kind) and tried them out yesterday for the first time. WOW They are buttery and you can push them around like oils, but alas they dry like acrylics which has good and bad points to it, as you know better than me. The pigment concentation is amazing and they do not appear to change color when they dry. I am very impressed.

[StephenSaloArt]

Beautiful Gary!