Plein Air 18×24 Acrylic Peach & Beach Park - Gary Garrett Painting demo

August 24th, 2009 | by admin |

Our First Coast Plein Air Painter’s June 6, 2009 paintout was at the new Peach & Beach Park (geo:lat=30.278771701381338 geo:lon=-81.55258655548095) alongside Anders Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida. This is the road that I walked and bicycled to Windy Hill Elementary School in the late 1950s. I used to catch minnows, tadpoles and frogs in this lake as a child, and now it’s a PARK! WOW! Today is wet with the possiblilty of more rain, so I am painting under the first pavilion at the park. It was just Rebekkah and I from our group today, but this is a 2-day paintout, so we may have more painters here tomorrow. The park is beautiful, a cool breeze, no bugs, simply a wonderful day to paint.

My painting today is an 18×24 stretched canvas (had to tape cardboard on the back early on as the light coming through the canvas was too great). This is acrylic using TITANIUM WHITE, PRUSSIAN BLUE, PAYNES GRAY, CRIMSON, CAD RED, CAD YELLOW, YELLOW OCHRE and BURNT SIENNA. Early on, I mixed a pink from crimson & white that I kept wet with my mister and used that to tint much of the foreground vegetation. I wanted the distant trees and sky to really receed, so it has been wiped with papertowels and a blending brush to soften distant edges. To get more color into it, i added a few small red and some light blue flowers, and enhanced the few ochre trees that were there. The thunderstorm did come just as i was leaving, so I was unable to take the time to shoot pics of the scene I was painting. The Park sign at the start of the video was shot on a scouting trip several weeks ago. WORK FAST AND DELIBERATE… THE ENERGY IS CAPTURED IN YOUR PAINTINGS!

The music is a soundtrack that came with my video editor mixed witht the natural sounds on the tape as well as my recordings of the natural sounds from the area.

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THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

Duration : 0:8:46


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  1. 25 Responses to “Plein Air 18×24 Acrylic Peach & Beach Park - Gary Garrett Painting demo”

  2. By Effectology on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    I wish I could do …
    I wish I could do that!!
    Beautiful.

    Bill

  3. By perezarte on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Gary hi
    This is …
    Gary hi
    This is greattt!, I liked.
    take care
    Alex

  4. By danjick on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    What a great …
    What a great painter you are…….
    I admire your works sir..
    You and your works are so inspiring for me and my friends here because we will start using acrylic medium next week for our Painting Class.. We will be moving on from Watercolor to this medium….

    Thank You very much for your Videos sir,, We enjoyed alot…

  5. By Illusionaire1 on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Good Stuff Man, You …
    Good Stuff Man, You should make a site and put some pictures of your paintings, they really look nice!

    Congrats to the soundtrack choices too, they are amazing!

  6. By GaryGarrett on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    thank you… I am …
    thank you… I am happy that these videos are inspiring. Thank you for the very nice comment,, and thanks for watching

  7. By chubbychilli on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Fantastic video and …
    Fantastic video and thanks for the notes on the left here! So glad to hear your wife is ok. My goodness…the tornado must have been so strong :( About to check your other videos now. Thanks for the inspiration.

    A rookie painter. CC

  8. By Micart33 on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    im really sorry to …
    im really sorry to here what youve been through it sounds tough, i am glad no one got hurt and i hope your back up and running very soon.
    all the best mate take care from mick

  9. By GaryGarrett on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    thank you, Mick… …
    thank you, Mick… I like your work also.

    .On June 13 2009, we had a tornado which felled a 116-year-old pine tree (42″ across at the base) on my house… missed killing my wife by about a foot. jammed the concrete block into the ground another 2 inches breaking the foundation. She’s okay, it totaled the bedroom, so I haven’t painted much lately, as clearing debis outside and in. Thanks for watching

  10. By Micart33 on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    hi ya gary i loved …
    hi ya gary i loved the way you painted the background trees and silver birch are my favourite trees and you captured them ace,
    they give real depth from mick.
    take care bud i enjoy watching you paint

  11. By 2darbit on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    A great invention, …
    A great invention,the misting bottle : )
    Couldn’t do without it ;discovered early on. Like soo many others who view, I’ve learned much from your videos.
    Thank you for giving us all your joy, to learn from.

  12. By GaryGarrett on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you… just …
    Thank you… just takes practice. Thanks for watching

  13. By ameh78 on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    you are an …
    you are an inspiration sir. I greatly admire your skill and ease of painting. I can only hope to be as good as you one day =]

  14. By loaded88 on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    wow brilliant job!, …
    wow brilliant job!, that’s a wonderful painting :) I wish I could paint like that :D
    5/5

  15. By ZombieToaster on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    A great tip. I …
    A great tip. I always rip my hair when my paint dry too quickly.

  16. By GaryGarrett on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks
    Thanks

  17. By GaryGarrett on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you… glad …
    Thank you… glad these help.

  18. By zack3mire on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    thumbs up ! :D
    thumbs up ! :D

  19. By angelkubin on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Hi Gary , love the …
    Hi Gary , love the painting , my second video of yours I have learned so much thank you for sharing , your much appreciated…………angel

  20. By GaryGarrett on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you. The …
    Thank you. The spray is just water in a misting spray bottle (the pump kind, NOT a trigger sprayer). it keeps more moisture in the paint slowing the drying time of the acrylics. I bought the sprayer in the cosmetic section of Walmart where they sell the traveler’s size items. Hope this helps. Thanks for the kind words on the bark of the trees. Thanks for watching.

  21. By GaryGarrett on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks, trying to …
    Thanks, trying to learn from previous mistakes. THANKS FOR WATCHING

  22. By lucaddragon on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Great Gerry, I …
    Great Gerry, I really enjoy your artwork… Could you please tell me what was that spray name? Also, do you know any good chart or something from which I can learn these colour names? Thanks

    By the way, that foreground maple trunk is awesome, the lighting is great! Well done. 5*

  23. By GaryGarrett on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks Retta… …
    Thanks Retta… this was a beautiful location to paint. I wish I shot the scene i was painting better, but trying to gather my gear and leave before the storm hit… could hear thunder in the near distance. Thanks for watching and the wonderful comment…. :-)

  24. By GaryGarrett on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Hi and Thanks for …
    Hi and Thanks for the great comments, That was a NICE pavilion… chose to paint there as it lookrd like it would rain any second. It did rain as I was packing to go. The smooth, “out of focus” background seems to really add depth to this one. Thanks for watching

  25. By ShadowAlin on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    sir you are awesome …
    sir you are awesome, I wish I had your skills :) 5/5

  26. By pelforthpelforth on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Presentation …
    Presentation getting better and better. Captions readable and informative.
    Time well spent by you ..and me!

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