November 20, 2008
Studio Paintings
The process for a studio painting is obviously different than a field sketch. Aside from being smaller, the outdoor paintings are more of a quick response to light, color and weather conditions. For me, they have the attitude of learning and spontaneity, gathering information and exploring new areas to paint. I’m also much more relaxed outside, I don’t really care if they are worth framing, they’re practice. If I don’t have much time to paint a sunset, or the sun coming and going, I will just mix paint and forego the drawing, just respond to the color and light.
Studio paintings for me are a whole different mind set. It moves from quick response to focusing on composition. I will use anything for inspiration; drawing, field sketches, photographs and imagination or a combination of all four. While the field sketch is more responsive , the studio painting is more thought out and planned.
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December 5th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Phil, reading this makes me realize that I need to take some pressure and expectation off myself when painting outdoors. What creative license you give here as well as a direction. For the sake of comparison to outdoor paintings, how much time might you typically spend on a larger studio painting? What about prep time for the larger painting?
December 21st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Eileen — The outdoor sketch is about practicing from real color and the studio piece is about taking the sketch, indoor photos and coming up with the best compositon possible which gives you the license to change what you need. I usually do as many thumbnail drawings that I need to come up with the right composition and if I need to, another small sketch to come up with right color scheme. The larger painting usually takes from 3 day to a month depending on how big it is.