Vivian invited us as her guests to this private camper ground. It is very nice. She said the 70+ year old guy was very excited that we were coming but he didn't come to look at what we were doing. Gary and Vivan were there when I arrived. John arrived next. Then Carol arrived after we started painting. Judith arrived as I was leaving.
Vivian lives in a camper there in the summer. Gary paints everyday. He showed us his heavy duty umbrella clamp and plastic grid that he uses to get things in proportion. I took pictures of the items and plan to look them up to see how much everything costs so I can save up for it or use a coupon to buy off the internet. I would like an umbrella to clamp to my guerilla box. It can be hard to find a scenic view when you're trying to stay in the shade. Plus the shade moves quite fast.
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Umbrella with Lumopro clamp. This is a great clamp.]
Today I turned my easel to keep the painting out of direct sunlight when the shade moved. I wore long pants and long sleeve cotton shirt with my insect repellent sprayed floppy camouflage hat. (I like being able to look up how words are spelled on line.)
I worked in golden open acrylics. Burnt sienna, white, c.p. cadmium yellow medium, cerulean blue. Made nice greens with the cad yellow and a really nice gray with the burnt sienna.
Despite walking and talking a lot. I think I managed to get a mostly done 8x8 painting done. I will evaluate it in fall to see if it needs more. There was a spruce on the edge of my painting. Spruces are kind of bluish white green trees. The reflection of the trees into the water on the far side of the lake kept changing height depending on how the wind was blowing. At first I thought it was the angle of the sun but then it got long again. So it must have been the wind on the water. I need to bring smaller brushes to add in detail easier.
John told me of spraying his acrylics with golden open thinner to keep them wet. I think that will work better than water so I will try that next time. It's been so cool this year despite sun and wind I have not needed a damp towel for paints in the palette. Plus the paints are not drying as fast as I would like. I wonder if the thinner will help me make long thin lines without gaps too?
We basically all hung out painting in the area around the big parking lot. Maybe next time we'll go paint over by the small parking lot where the antiques and cabins are located. Gary painted the island, Vivian painted the lake too.John painted the canoes. The orangish red canoe was Vivian's. Carol painted Vivian blue trailer without knowing it was her trailer. I don't know what Judith ended up painting as I had to leave as she was showing up.
Gary's was telling us a little bit about his exhibition and plein air adventures. He started painting when he was 50. He told of being disqualified for using gouche on watercolor for watercolor competition and being dinged for using an acrylic underpainting under an oil painting. He likes to do a black and white underpainting for the values in acrylic. However when he paints the fur of police dogs he uses oils over acrylic painting because he can get a nice long stroke without gaps.
Vivian can't use turp due to work related health breathing issues anymore so is learning how to use a different media. She likes the slow dry of oils.
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