Sentences with phrase «done en plein»

While I do all my oil paintings in the studio, I do work from pastel sketches that are done en plein air.

Not exact matches

You can bolster the atmospheric effects when painting the sky, as Richard McKinley did, in this overcast landscape, Malheur Rain (en plein air pastel, 11 × 14).

The first was Impressionism, a school of painting that initially focused on work done, not in studios, but outdoors (en plein air).

He continues to gain recognition in the French art market, most notably for those works done in the tradition of the Impressionist masters and painted en plein air.

The Impressionists argued that people do not see objects but only the light which they reflect, and therefore painters should paint in natural light (en plein air) rather than in studios and should capture the effects of light in their work.

In fact, the artist never composed her paintings directly from nature, en plein air, as her Impressionist forebears did, but rather opted to tackle the distilled memories of a certain place or event in her studio.

The work is the solution to a problem that perplexed and defeated many of the great painters of the nineteenth century: how do you paint a mighty canvas outside, en plein air?