April 12-15 I attended the 1st annual Plein Air convention, hosted by Plien Air Magazine and it's publisher, Eric Rhoads. I sketched every day, in my way of taking notes, here are the results
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| 1st day, finding my way in... |
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| Some random notes during the 1st installment of the Marketing Boot camp. 6:30 am every day! |
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| A demo by Peter Adams, a very funny and charming painter. Mr Adams is also the president of the California Art Club. Riffing on the pallet decoration theme. |
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| A three man Demo: Tony Pro, Jeremy Lipking and Alexey Steele. |
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| They were the only figurative painters doing a demo during the conference. |
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| Alexey Steele overlapping with a presentation by Clyde Aspevig, who gave a very insightful presentation about painting and his thought processes. He talked a lot about fractals in nature, repeating shapes from big to small all around us. When I went out painting several days later it was almost all I could think about! |
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| Drawn while listening to a presentation about John Singer Sargent, by Richard Ormond, a scholar and relative of the painter. |
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| Sketch of a demo by Ulrich (Uly) Gleitner and some notes from the Marketing Boot camp. |
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| More notes, and the beginning of a very impressive 1.5 hour demo by painter Ken Auster. He painted a 60" x 40" San Francisco street scene from a photo, freehand and quickly! A good lesson is just going for it and not being fussy! |
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| Ken Auster painting furiously! Then the stage was set up for Matt Smith, a much more restrained painter. |
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| Demo by Matt Smith. His demo style was very different from Ken's. |
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| Matt Smigh during his demo and Scott Christensen beginning his. |
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| Scott Christensen demo and presentation. Scott is a former athlete turned painter. |
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| Double demo by Camille Przewodek and Ned Muller. They were the George and Gracie of the Convention, with the roles reversed! |
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| Some notes on painting and more demo's. |
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| Nikolai Dubovik, Russian painter. I was pretty much running out of steam by now! 2 full days of demo's, lectures and slide shows! |
