I've been trying/eliminating a lot of different tools lately. I wanted to take notes on the subject, might as well post for others to see/learn from as well. The Day Tripper Easel: I love it. If you order one, you will not regret it. You'll need a good tripod. The reason I like it is that it's light. I will post some of my proposed improvements below. I may customize it a great deal and post what I've changed. I've been thinking about asking Josh Been if I can recrea

This little cactus is one of many small daily paintings I'm challenging myself to do. It is surprisingly difficult to dedicate 2 to 4 hours a day to a painting. This was day 4, of what will hopefully be 100 days. As you can see this photo has color issues. We can talk about photographing art in a later post. Since this is just a daily painting I just took a quick snapshot. The point of these is supposed to be that I wipe most of these after I'm done. The idea is to fre

I took a Plein Air painting class from Joshua Been last month and have not posted since. I've been reading all the material he suggested, books, blogs, youtube videos, and I'm super excited to keep this going. I should explain, I'm both excited and bummed. I'm excited because I have so much to learn and I want to jump right into the chess game that is Plein Air painting, and learn by doing. But I'm bummed because I realize now how far away I am. I do look forward to learning