PLEIN AIR OIL PAINTING ALPINE GROVES PARK 2009 - Gary Garrett painting demo

As most of your know already, I paint primarily in acrylics... so this is my FIRST plein air OIL painting (11x14 inches). Painted May 2, 2009 using Winsor & Newton professional oil paints at beautiful Alpine Groves Park on the St. Johns River south of Jacksonville Florida. I like these oil paints as they have a LOT of pigment, dried to touch in 5 days (including heavy impasto areas) and were fun (but challenging for ME) to work with. They a FAR different to work with than acrylics... my usual blending and layering techniques turn oils to mud quickly, so had to adopt totally different application techniques, but i like the colors and feeling of the oils here. This interest in oils started a few weeks ago at an outdoor art show in which I was particpating. In the bright sunlight, I could SEE a real difference in the richness and depth of color in my oil paintings over the acrylics, in other words... I could pick out the oils by their quality and depth of color. Therefore, I was determined to try a plein air oil painting... thus this video. Not having a "carry box" to handle and protect the wet painting, I took a frame to put it in so I could carry it by the frame... that worked, but still had to be quite careful with it.

I needed and umbrella to have more uniform light on the painting for the camera, as I edited out a lot of video that you could see absolutly nothing due to the dancing shadows and BRIGHT sunlight. I will try to improve that on the next video.

more later...

Thanks for watching and commenting

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[gundalowman]

Thanks for another educational video. I have never painted with oils and have signed up for a 3 day plein air workshop this summer. Did you find your choice of 7 colors adequate? Did you use them all? Why did you choose them?

[GaryGarrett]

Hi... those 7 colors are mostly what I have been limiting myself to in acrylic. these 7 do not duplicate the scene, but through values and subtle color, I am capturing a "sense" of the scene, maybe not so much in this particular painting, but there is a wide range of color values associated with these. A lot of my acrylic application techniques don't work in oils, so this will take some getting used to. Thanks for watching. :-)

[GaryGarrett]

My reason for limiting the colors is that I was carrying into the field a toolbox with 80+ tubes of paint. I felt that my finished paintings were looking like paint-by-numbers, as well as the weight... and I am close to 60. I was returning exhausted and decided to iighten my load. My wife bought a half-box French easel, and I find it will hold around 8 tubes of paint... so with that limit, I have been experimenting. I hope this helps.

Thanks for watching

[Topdoginuk]

Very good and inspiring.

I'm a Bob Ross CRI Landscape Instructor but, not actively teaching.

[GaryGarrett]

Thanks... I have ALWAYS painted plein air with acrylics.... so this was a definite challenge for me... but it's good to REALLY challenge one's self now and then LOL... thanks for the compliment and thanks for watching.

[psychodelicdragon]

love your work, looks absolutely beeuuuuuttttiiifffuuullllll!!!­!!!

[GaryGarrett]

Thank you, this was an unsure experiment... never painted plein air with oils before (had my acrylics with me though ... sorta like my safety net LOL). Thanks for watching

[LuC1800]

I love your paintings...glad you are doing oils... now I can learn more from you....I am trying oils and learning to paint....

[lucaddragon]

You are truly an expert! Wonderful

[PuppyZwolle]

*nods*

I realize that different paint makes for a different result. I mean sure it works differently but that it would be this big a difference in the end result. The difference in fluidity and brightness of the oil sure surprised me.

I may just have to try that paint myself (some day)

[GaryGarrett]

Hi again.... This looks different as the application of the oils is different... a learning curve for me, but an enjoyable one. I was surprised that the majority of the painting was dry to the touch in 2 days, with the "impasto" areas dry in 5 days.. the last oil painting I did (in 1969) took 3 weeks to dry... I really like these Winsor & Newton Professional oil paints. It really took just very small dabs of paint from the tubes to paint this scene. Thanks for watching

[GaryGarrett]

I needed an umbrella to have more uniform light on the painting for the camera, as I edited out a lot of video that you could see absolutly nothing due to the dancing shadows and BRIGHT sunlight. I will try to improve that on the next video. Thanks for watching