/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5096978
Made with ~$15 worth of wood strapping / bolts. I hang my paints in a backpack in the center to give it weight and a center of mass.

Trad Chad reporting in. Here's my plein air setup. My studio easel is only 4 ft, but it's a bunch of 2x4s clamped to school desk. Pro Tip: It doesn't have to be expensive, it doesn't have to be pretty, it only has to be functional.

The plein air setup cost me less than $15 and two hours of work including sanding. I know not everyone has a woodshop on hand, but you should at least know your hand tools.

>>4846991
Made you this image.
This cost me around 10 bucks to make from strapping. You'd at least need a drill and a hand saw.

Plein-air is pretty much just painting without training wheels. I enjoy it because it forces you to be far more aware of the transitory qualities of color and light. You have to race time and light to get the image you need. As for color, it helps to just have more pigments, but I would consider it secondary to light. You're going to do a shit job the first few times, that's just how it works. The important thing is forcing yourself to come up with a time effective way to block your light into the image while keeping the subject readable. You can start as small as you would like to keep your project manageable.

I use canvas panels because they're rigid and they come in standard sizes.

My pallette is Titanium white, mars black, paynes grey, ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, cad red, cad yellow, Burnt umber, burnt sienna, hookers green, primarily. I have a shit ton of colors because I use acrylic. Mixing colors is a learned skill, so it's not something you should expect to be comfortable with right away.