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Plein Air Drawing
definition
• Plein Air drawing or painting refers to the French phrase “en plein air” which mean “out in the open air.” It simply means doing observation drawings or paintings outside.
• The Impressionist painters of the late 1800’s loved the paint outdoors because the light would change and create different scenes.
Claude Monet, French 1840-1926
• He painted many paintings of the same scene at different times of the day to get different lighting and colors. Haystacks were a favorite of his.
Richard Diebenkorn, American 1922-1993
• Used shapes of color to help define landscapes often
Gwendolyn Waring
• A local Flagstaff artist that also uses the Plein Air style is Gwendolyn Waring. She uses paint and pastel to show local scenes.
• http://www.waringarts.com/home.html
The technique
• Find a good viewpoint. Use your viewfinder to help you. Try to fit a foreground, mid ground and background.
• Look for ways to draw the objects as shapes of color.
• Sketch with pencil first the blocked shapes in a contour drawing
• Add pastel or paint to the shapes as solid colors, not details yet.
• Add finer details at the end.
Grading
• Initial layout of scene using the viewfinder (how you compose the picture)…10 points
• Color blocking… 10 points• Details.. 5 pointsTotal 25 points
Additional info
• National Core Arts Standards: 1, 2, 3, 9, 11• SWBAT use correct tools and techniques to
create a successful plein air drawing or painting.
• Vocab: plein air, foreground, mid-ground, background, contour drawing