Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Winter Plein Air


The challenges of painting plein air are great enough during the best of conditions, but in the winter, you gotta be a real sucker for punishment. There is one nice part though...you don't decide when your painting is finished - the frost bite does.

17 Comments:

Blogger jimmy ly said...

I think they turned out great! love the hot accents on the first one.

2:32 AM  
Blogger Jason Pruett said...

oh man that looks cold. i've always wanted to try plein air painting in the snow. . . but in California it takes a bit of trip to get to it.

good job.

12:19 PM  
Blogger RAWLS said...

Hopefully you didn't do this in the last couple of days... Man that's cold!! Nice work my friend.

12:44 PM  
Blogger Marco Bucci said...

Thanks guys,
Rawls - the top one was done this past Wednesday (the painting is sitting here in front of me, and is still wet!) But it was only 0 degrees on Wednesday, so it was fine for about 30 minutes.
Jason - Snow is incredibly fun to paint. Its local value makes for easy comparisons, and fun design opportunities. Definitely worth bringing your plein air gear if you ever go on a trip to a colder climate.

3:07 PM  
Blogger Màriam Ben-Arab said...

Your work is really FAN-TAS-TIC!!
Thank you for your comment in my blog

5:10 AM  
Blogger Dillon Thompson said...

Looks like a lot of fun. Your snow colors are great.

1:35 PM  
Blogger Jose Ramos said...

Hi , Marco! , i have been watching your tutorials video , and i get to say , they are awesome, i have learned a lot.
.I wish get back over here soon

see u dude!

3:25 PM  
Blogger Fábio Cembranelli said...

Hi Marco, your work is outsdanding. Everything is very well done, your website is terrific, your plein air paintings are awesome. If you don't mind, I'll link your blog. All the best for you!

9:36 PM  
Blogger Peter Breese said...

You are a champion buddy, ridiculously cold and there you are.

9:43 PM  
Blogger Murali Rajan said...

Very nice and too Cool-:)

Thanks for sharing challenging experience with us.

I feel little jealous about the way
you artists are managing to live this wonderful life.
(we are really trying to survive and not able to do what we want )

And thank u for your valuable comments

3:26 AM  
Blogger Jörn said...

Man you got it with colors - really beautyfull.
PS Brrr looks so cold, hard job!

12:16 PM  
Blogger SEILER said...

Geez, you're insane! Awesome stuff!

7:30 AM  
Blogger Michael Pieczonka said...

Marco, wow.. you guys are hard core! I love the evergreen with the snow on it.. very nice. It's funny how the paint gets thick when it's cold eh?

8:38 PM  
Blogger David Lobenberg said...

I second Mike, you are hard core for being out in that cold, but nice work! Do you know of Collin Page's work in the New England area? He just published a book through Blurb.

3:11 PM  
Blogger Marco Bucci said...

Hey Mike,
Yeah, seems like after about 10 minutes the paint starts resembling wet cement. Gotta load up on the medium!
David - Hmmm, no I haven't heard of Collin Page at all. I will look him up, thanks!

6:23 PM  
Blogger Gabriel Hunt said...

What medium do you use for painting in the snow?

1:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love it!! :)

10:57 AM  

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