Barnard’s Mill & Art Museum

This past weekend I went out to Glen Rose, Texas with a Plein Air group that I belong to call OPS (Outdoor Painter Society)

I had pack up my gear the night before and this time I brought my acrylic paints with me. My son was suppose to come along with me but he opted out to sleep a little longer in his nice warm bed. I can’t blame him, for when I left the house  it was in the high 30’s and the wind was blowing hard. 

Well after driving a little over an hour I come to a quaint little historic town call Glen Rose along the Paluxy River. I found  the Barnard’s Mill & Art Museum and I fell in love with the  the silo and I knew I had to paint it.  But acrylic and wind is a bad combo so I moved to my car.

This is my plein air study of Barnard’s Mill Silo. 

 

Here  is a pic of the silo.

I wish I could have painted more then the one painting (this is other landscape that I wanted to paint) but I had to get back home so now I am planning on going back on my own or with a friend to find more little gems to paint in Glen Rose.

Untill next time …God Bless and keep creating

Less toxic way of painting

My Adventure Plein Air.

I have been on the net, blogs, and any other thing I could get my hands on to find a way to paint in a more non toxic way of painting with oils and I think I found it.

While I was reading different post on FaceBook I came across Marc R. Hanson OPAM post. I am going to post a bits of his post that I think will help anyone who is on a quest to be a toxic free.

Marc R. Hanson stated off …”In my personal quest to paint with oils in a less toxic way, meaning ridding my studio space of as much petroleum distillate as is possible, but in a way that still feels comfortable to me, I think I might be there…I have drawers full of traditional oils that need to be used. I’ve settled on using Gamblin’s Solvent Free Painting Fluid for a medium, and Safflower oil in my brush washer for cleaning brushes during a painting session…

This is how I do it. I keep the medium (what ever medium you chose to use) and the Gamsol in these eye dropper topped bottles.

If I need a dissolved wash in the early stages of a painting, like Gamsol allows (and the other “solvent free” mediums don’t, being based on safflower oil), I can control the amount much easier using the eye dropper.

To add medium to the paints, I can add the same amount, by drop(s), to each paint pile. In this way I have both control over how much medium is in each paint layer, and I can control how much solvent is in my studio atmosphere.

It’s an evolving trial and error process. This seems like a good way to go for me.

If you would like to read this in its full content go to FaceBook and look up Marc R. Hanson OPAM.

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Until next time, keep creating.

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