Saturday At Lake Norman

"Saturday At Lake Norman"

 

 

Wow!  It has been quite a very long time since I have done any en plein air painting since I can really remember since the late 1980's.  I wanted to do some outdoor paintings for some time, and the weekend of August 8-10, 2014 (a couple of Saturday's ago) was on my plans to do just that even when the weather was very iffy.  I also learned how to pack much lighter for this particular type of excursion since I was riding with my husband in his two-seater convertible (Pontiac Solstice). We finally arrived at Jetton Park, which is about twenty-five miles north of Charlotte, NC.  Jetton Park has both beautiful and rustic landscapes, and it is a place where my husabnd goes during the week to "soak" in all of that scenery enough to call it his "outdoor office".  He also goes there to have his little picnic and make various work-related telephone calls. Now, I can really understand why he loves coming up to Jetton Park enough to inspire me to do this en plein air painting. 

 

 On that day, I found out that there were so many scenes to choose from between passing boats, scenes with houses in the distance, scenery closer up, and the passing clouds. I just began doing at least a couple of crude sketches before I started painting on a hardboard panel.  Usually, I prefer my hardboard panels to do pallett-knife paintings, however, I painted this painting in acrylics which I start off painting in a watercolor style.  It dawned on me that the hardboard was literally absorbing the fluid part of the paints during my applicactions. I thickened up the paint and received better results.  Recently, I have been having an "itch" to improve my painting style by watching demonstrations on "You-Tube" and observing other artists' styles of the ones that I want to implement into my paintings.

 

 

Title: "Saturday At Lake Norman"



 

Medium: Acrylic on Hardboard Panel

 

Size: 8" W x 6" H

 

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