(Link to YouTube) On Saturday, we joined a group of plein air painters and urban sketchers at the New York Botanical Garden for a day of painting flowers.
For the first sketch, my goal was to capture how people interact with flowers. Watercolor is one of the quickest media for such character studies. I like to capture just an impression of the silhouette and action as quickly as possible.
We were there for a special "NYBG Plein Air Invitational" event.
Off topic but I'm impressed that you could attend the festival yesterday, edit your footage and get a video out by the end of the day. That's as impressive as the beautiful art that you produced yesterday as well.
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Beautiful, inspiring work, as always. Love that you had both a zoomed-in close up of flower clusters as well as “the big picture,” the people in the garden. That combination of near/far vantage points makes a visual journal so evocative when revisited later.
ReplyDeleteAnd Kev provided a quick advertisement for anchoring one’s umbrella somewhere other than the easel — or for fashioning a small shade screen out of file folder hangers...
Love those people. Great work.
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