Steve Fleming

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Steve Fleming

Tag: plein-air

In the field

Yesterday I was painting in Camden, Maine at a very familiar location.  I am getting ready for my annual Maine workshop.  This years workshop I am teaching transparent watercolors, opaque watercolors and oils so it will be quite the interesting schedule but I am so up for it.  I spent the day working on opaque watercolors and after realizing I had left most of the required colors at home in my studio, I finally got back in the game and started to paint. This is not a very interesting scene and it takes some looking to come up with a good concept and composition.  I wanted the lake to really be the star of this piece and it is painted with Cheap Joe color Sky Blue and Titanium White.

Two Oils, Monday Demonstrations

Here is my mornings efforts at correcting and polishing up my last couple of demonstrations for my Monday morning plein air class.  In both of these paintings I worked at pushing the backgrounds back using a more violet greys, and bringing the foregrounds forward with texture using a palette knife and chip brush, applying intense reds yellows and greens.  The oils are coming along but it will be a year or so before I really feel I have turned the corner.  I plan to spend the first two months of 2015 outdoors painting trying to get the winter greys down.  I think that is the only way.  Thanks for putting up with my oils I know they will get better.