"Hensche block study with white Jug", 12x16, oil on masoniteMy husband has been hovering in the background for a few years now, thinking quietly about this process that I do each day called "painting". Recently he surprised me by asking if I would give him a lesson. I asked him what and how he wanted to paint, and he sweetly said, "I want to paint like you!" I was touched. A lot of men would be intimidated by the colors that I like to use.
So I suggested that we do a block study together out in our back garden. I set up what I thought was a simple block study (not so simple after all!) and we both went to work. At the end of an hour, I told him we had to stop becuase the light had changed the positions of the shadows. He was surprised but also relieved. "I had no idea how hard this plein air block study stuff was!", he said.
Yeah, I thought to myself. It is hard, but few people realize just how hard it is to chase a light effect!
The block study above was done over a three hour period, in the afternoon of the first day of John Ebersberger's workshop a few weeks back. After the first hour had passed I realized it was becoming innacurate from the way the study had looked initially, but since it was a workshop we all kept working, mostly from memory. Painting white objects is not easy either. It would be simple to think one could open a tube of white paint and just apply it, but that's hardly the case.
Maybe today the hubby and I will work a bit more on our endeavor earlier in the week. If so, I'll post pictures of the results.
Here is a group picture of the final day of John's workshop at The Southern Atelier in Sarasota, Florida:
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