tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25396169226134302682023-01-08T11:39:00.051-08:00Flyingroc.orgRoy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-77524709557969843472020-10-05T16:57:00.003-07:002020-10-05T16:57:26.595-07:00I'm in the Peninsula Art League show!<p>I'm super happy to say <a href="https://onlinegalleryshows.com/collections/2020-open-juried-show-peninsula-art-league/artist-roy-tan">two of my paintings</a> are in the <a href="https://onlinegalleryshows.com/collections/2020-open-juried-show-peninsula-art-league?page=4">Peninsula Art League show</a>! It's the first time I've been actively entering my art into shows and the first time I've been in one since 2015. Too bad that like many art shows this year, this show is online only. Would have enjoyed looking at all the wonderful art in person.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://onlinegalleryshows.com/collections/2020-open-juried-show-peninsula-art-league/products/388172" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1288" data-original-width="1669" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kp0ZJwwNZoQ/X3uuoqYBr-I/AAAAAAAABsM/-rLnra7zh7IH9lZiWQSuqMaI9OMNclbMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/94F99319-B19A-4A41-AF34-9927FFFC8512_1_201_a.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://onlinegalleryshows.com/collections/2020-open-juried-show-peninsula-art-league/products/388172">Mackey Creek</a> 11x14 Acrylic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Both of these paintings are studio paintings, developed from plein air studies, done on location. It was actually a fairly productive summer of painting. Because of COVID, I did most of my plein air work from locations closer to home than usual. That allowed me to quite a few nice parks and short hikes around the area. I feel blessed to live in such a picturesque part of the world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GOqlPtIpm5A/X3uuh97GumI/AAAAAAAABsQ/FxKuj62XWdMIPvvVYRwmI1dKXaSbIRKtQCPcBGAYYCw/s1777/A2CFB14F-2D58-4549-B0F8-896237DC2059_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="1777" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GOqlPtIpm5A/X3uuh97GumI/AAAAAAAABsQ/FxKuj62XWdMIPvvVYRwmI1dKXaSbIRKtQCPcBGAYYCw/s320/A2CFB14F-2D58-4549-B0F8-896237DC2059_1_201_a.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://onlinegalleryshows.com/collections/2020-open-juried-show-peninsula-art-league/products/388171">Larsen Lake</a> 11x14 Acrylic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Check out the <a href="https://onlinegalleryshows.com/collections/2020-open-juried-show-peninsula-art-league">full collection of artworks</a> at the Peninsula art League show!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-20048625913741945792020-09-27T15:46:00.003-07:002020-09-27T15:47:39.131-07:00Head Studies with the Zorn Palette<p>In the last week or so, I've been trying out a couple of new things -- using water mixable oils, and using the Zorn palette for portrait painting. I've always wanted to try out water mixable oils after hearing about them from other artists, and when it came time to order more titanium white oil paints, I decided to get a water soluble oil version, plus a limited palette for trying it out.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whHdeLp5sgA/X3EGQUvIwUI/AAAAAAAABrE/uYm4UhwtCIwSgtA4wqM09CGldHx43E_5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/9E30CCD2-7889-4B17-8F2B-FA5F6D80F475_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1622" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-whHdeLp5sgA/X3EGQUvIwUI/AAAAAAAABrE/uYm4UhwtCIwSgtA4wqM09CGldHx43E_5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/9E30CCD2-7889-4B17-8F2B-FA5F6D80F475_1_201_a.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p><p>The paints I got were from the <a href="https://amzn.to/2G3BRrq">Cobra</a> brand by Royal Talens, but other manufacturers make them also, like <a href="https://amzn.to/3j9UkB1">Winsor Newton</a> and <a href="https://amzn.to/3j8TPXD">Daniel Smith</a>.</p><p>I decided to get the colors in the Zorn palette, since it's a classic limited palette for painting portraits. The Zorn palette. Named after the Swedish artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Zorn">Anders Zorn</a>, the colors are traditionally lead white, vermillion, yellow ochre, and ivory black. I used <a href="https://amzn.to/3ja3VHQ">Titanium White</a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/337JHsX">Pyrrole Red</a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/3cF37Zk">Yellow Ochre</a>, and <a href="https://amzn.to/2G7Xd6S">Ivory Black</a>. Lead white and vermillion (a mercury based pigment) are toxic, and aren't readily available, so I replaced them with safer, modern pigments.</p><p>Limited palettes are really useful to force a certain color harmony by limiting your color gamut -- that is, the range of colors that you can make. Since the Zorn palette has no blue, you can't really make greens; the best you can do is a greenish gray by mixing the black and yellow ochre. You can also only get some muted purples. So essentially you can only get colors with intense chroma in the red family. Here's a sense of the range of colors you can mix:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T53DFGkG1G4/X3EGQ7J_SKI/AAAAAAAABrQ/aX-CFWH_4HgZJrywaR1EpDbaQeP2poNDwCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/F6C49157-8A0F-4EF0-83ED-A634F6D69F3F_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T53DFGkG1G4/X3EGQ7J_SKI/AAAAAAAABrQ/aX-CFWH_4HgZJrywaR1EpDbaQeP2poNDwCPcBGAYYCw/s320/F6C49157-8A0F-4EF0-83ED-A634F6D69F3F_1_201_a.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>It turns out that limiting the colors was quite helpful to me, because I didn't have to think too much about color mixing, and instead got to focus more on values and drawing accuracy for my head studies. I used reference images from <a href="https://nma.art">New Master's Academy</a>, where I am taking a drawing course. Here's the results:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ay9EOytghvo/X3ERFcz7U8I/AAAAAAAABro/CTPnLSfDNng7Rr-63D6lPkC9kF45PQh6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/455006BB-0378-4086-A543-62A8757144D5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="2048" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ay9EOytghvo/X3ERFcz7U8I/AAAAAAAABro/CTPnLSfDNng7Rr-63D6lPkC9kF45PQh6ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h200/455006BB-0378-4086-A543-62A8757144D5.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The water mixable oils feel just like oil paints when straight out of the tube, but they do feel less and less like oils as you add water to them. You can get mediums <a href="https://amzn.to/2S6adfH">specifically made for water mixable oils</a> as well, to keep the experience more consistent. Also, I believe you can mix regular oil paints and mediums with water soluble oils, except you will lose the water soluble properties of the paint. </p><p>Since I can use water for thinning the paint, I don't have to use solvents, even to do those washy under paintings that a lot of artists like to do. Cleanup is a breeze, I can quickly clean the brushes with just soap and water. I really like this medium, I think I'm basically going to replace my oil paints with water mixable oils over time, as the old tubes run out.</p><p> </p>Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-67202949250263372022020-08-01T21:22:00.000-07:002020-08-01T21:22:23.936-07:00Larsen LakeLast week I set up my easel at Larsen Lake. It's by a blueberry farm, near a Walmart. It's really a blessing to be able to visit a nice park, or nature area just a few minutes drive from where I live. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gzrxoWvigu0/XyY9R8XPf1I/AAAAAAAABo8/qPptX-FEvLQ8ktggQAOIx_2NrIulo_V_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1777/A2CFB14F-2D58-4549-B0F8-896237DC2059_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="1777" height="321" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gzrxoWvigu0/XyY9R8XPf1I/AAAAAAAABo8/qPptX-FEvLQ8ktggQAOIx_2NrIulo_V_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w410-h321/A2CFB14F-2D58-4549-B0F8-896237DC2059_1_201_a.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Larsen Lake 11x14 acrylic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is actually a painting done in the studio, based on my plein air study. Here's what it looks like when I was painting on site:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw5PvGeoPtg/XyY9SA_9-bI/AAAAAAAABpM/AkCQDfN7ZF857nGrvShzpjrL1qe1RDL4wCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/2493C63E-A6BE-44E2-99F0-DD7F82A0AE84.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="410" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw5PvGeoPtg/XyY9SA_9-bI/AAAAAAAABpM/AkCQDfN7ZF857nGrvShzpjrL1qe1RDL4wCPcBGAYYCw/w307-h410/2493C63E-A6BE-44E2-99F0-DD7F82A0AE84.jpeg" width="307" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While I was painting, I met an old colleague jogging past! It turns out he lives close by the lake. We had a socially distanced chat, and he took a picture of me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IirhGt8W_z4/XyY9SQqGjAI/AAAAAAAABpQ/vLpjb0cTDtsdffYO01Ha--f8I62gleFiACPcBGAYYCw/s2048/5FE6E517-A904-49FE-8380-2D2666E98EC5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="307" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IirhGt8W_z4/XyY9SQqGjAI/AAAAAAAABpQ/vLpjb0cTDtsdffYO01Ha--f8I62gleFiACPcBGAYYCw/w410-h307/5FE6E517-A904-49FE-8380-2D2666E98EC5.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What a weird time to be alive. Staying at least 6 feet apart while chatting with a friend, and wearing a mask wherever I go. Glad I'm still able to paint outdoors tho!</div></div>Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-5555461585468399132020-07-18T09:20:00.000-07:002020-07-18T09:20:38.095-07:00Eric Falls, and gets up again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I am attending <a href="https://pleinairlive.com/">Plein Air Live</a>, a virtual painting conference. At the end of each day of the conference, we are invited to paint something from a video. In this case, it is a waterfall in the Adirondacks. I was inspired to use a limited palette for this painting, which was just red oxide, yellow oxide, ultramarine blue, and white. The nice thing about this color scheme is that these pigments are cheap! I don't hesitate to put globs of it on the palette.</div>
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Eric Rhoads, the publisher of <a href="https://www.outdoorpainter.com/">Plein Air Magazine</a> was telling this story of how he was painting on location by these falls, and he slipped and fell, and was knocked unconscious for a few hours! Thankfully he regained consciousness and was able to get home.</div>
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<br />Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-891821163538183352020-07-11T21:32:00.001-07:002020-07-11T22:05:11.484-07:00Plein Air Painting in Acrylics: My Equipment and Materials<br />
I love painting outdoors. I love seeing the actual landscape I'm trying to paint in front of me, I love feeling like I'm immersed in the same reality as the things I'm painting.<br />
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When I paint en plein air, I typically use acrylics as my painting medium. There are many advantages to painting outdoors with acrylics:<br />
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<li>Acrylic painting is free of toxic solvents. Acrylics are water based, so I just carry an extra water bottle.</li>
<li>I don't have to worry about oily rag disposal, acrylic painting rags go in the trash, and that's it.</li>
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One thing about plein air painters, we love to talk about our materials and equipment, there is a ton of stuff out there that you can use for painting outdoors. I've been doing plein air paintings for several years now, and I have mostly settled on my materials. Here they are in case you are curious:<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Painter-8-Inch-Thumbox-II/dp/B0072D1IFE/ref=as_li_ss_il?dchild=1&keywords=guerilla+box&qid=1594521253&sr=8-5&linkCode=li2&tag=roytan04-20&linkId=b300963be2504b247828fb0d8654c46a&language=en_US" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0072D1IFE&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=roytan04-20&language=en_US" width="200" /></a></div>
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I have quite the collection of outdoor painting easels! When I was starting out, I used a cheap <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZhSx5f">aluminun tripod easel</a>. It works ok, but I don't really like holding my palette in my hand while painting. So I looked into a lot of different pochade boxes. A pochade box is basically a painting box, the lid acts as an easel, and the container can be used as a palette. The two I use most often are a <a href="https://www.stradaeasel.com/products/strada-mini">strada mini </a>easel. And a <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZhSx5f">6x8 Guerilla Box</a>. I really like the Strada mini, but it is a bit pricey, and somewhat heavier than I expected (tho still pretty light). The guerilla box is cheaper, lighter and more compact, but has less space for your palette, and also the size of your paintings is going to be limited to the size of the box.</div>
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If you get this box, I recommend you also get a <a href="https://amzn.to/3fkUuU1">hook</a> to hang your water bucket, and the <a href="https://amzn.to/3iTe1gG">tripod mounting kit</a>. Speaking of tripods, you need one to attach your box to. I've been using a <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZZhcdX">compact tripod</a>, that folds small enough to fit in my backpack.<br />
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Acrylics is nice in that you can use it on a lot of different materials. I've been partial to these <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZZhcdX">carton painting panels</a>, and also these <a href="https://amzn.to/2OmQTsF">Canson plein air art boards</a>. I really like the carton panels for being brown in color, so the surface is toned from the get go. I've also used canvas panels, <a href="https://amzn.to/2W7nwPl">watercolor paper</a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/2CoyQzK">gessobord</a>, etc. The one thing I actually don't like for plein air painting is a traditional canvas. When outdoors, light can leak from the back of the canvas, which makes things really difficult.<br />
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I'm partial to the Liquitex Heavy Body paints. I most artist-grade acrylic paints are good, but what I like about the Liquotex paints are the paint tubes! The caps are large and easy to open, and if they slip off my hands, they are easy to find in the grass! Some brands have a much smaller cap that can be easy to lose, and sometimes difficult to twist open (I've taken to using pliers to do that). </div>
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<li><a href="https://amzn.to/2C39M1h">Phthalo Blue</a> (PB15)</li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/2WarB5I">Yellow Azo Medium</a> (PY74)</li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/3iRBte9">Napthol Red Light</a> (PR9)</li>
<li><a href="https://amzn.to/3gUksOv">Quinacridone Magenta</a> (PR122)</li>
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I put the pigment code because for some of these colors, they may be called something else with other brands. I find I can use these colors to mix everything else. I usually mix a green when I lay out my palette with the phthalo blue, yellow, and a little bit of red. I try to not use any paints that have heavy metals (like Cadmium), just to be extra careful.<br />
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In the past I've been using these <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZVqoA8">Princeton Catalyst Polytip</a> brushes; but I found the ends of these brushed get frayed a bit quickly. I've been trying out these <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZYqVS0">Silver Bristlon</a> brushes as the old brushes wear out, and so far they've been pretty good. I use a variety of sizes, and mostly flat brushes.<br />
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I have a little foldable bucket for water, which has worked without problems for me for years. But after buying extra ones as backup, they would start leaking after a few of uses, so I don't know if I can recommend them. A traditional <a href="https://amzn.to/2DzWeuP">brush washer</a> might work better.<br />
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Also, a hat, some sunscreen, a packed lunch and water are always a good idea :). Happy painting!<br />
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Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-7619209669657539272020-07-05T13:33:00.003-07:002020-07-06T22:57:08.974-07:00Favorite Paintings 2019: Figures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I kind of think of myself as a landscape painter. But actually looking back at last year’s body of work, I have done a lot of paintings with figures in them as well, these are my favorites. First is a painting from a hike to Gothic Basin in the North Cascades. That turned out to be a very grueling and difficult one for me, haha. But my friends and I some show powered through it.</div>
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The next one is a painting from Plein Air Washington Artists annual paint-in; we usually start and cap the painting season with an indoor painting session and pot luck. It’s always enjoyable to reconnect with old friends and meet new members. We had a set up this time with multiple models sitting together, which is great for me since I rarely have the opportunity to paint 2 models at the same time.<br />
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Finally, this one is dear to me, because it was my 100th painting of the year! It is even more special because I did this back in my hometown where I haven’t visited in 10 years; of a scene that brought back so many childhood memories of celebrating the New Year traveling to that same beach. I painted this using some student-grade acrylics from my dad’s painting supply stash. </div>
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Anyway, that’s it, my favorite paintings of 2019. I think the paintings I really liked from last year not only have some technical aspects that I’m pleased with, but also are special in the context that I’ve painted them in. </div>
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I have been painting in 2020 as well, tho not at the same rate as last year, haha. I’ll share some of this year’s paintings soon.</div>
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<br />Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-84107757250595345982020-06-27T19:44:00.002-07:002020-06-27T19:44:23.861-07:00Favorite Paintings 2019: RepublicGoing to Republic Washington Was the best painting trip of 2019. One benefit of joining a painting group is that you get to travel to places that you might not have thought to go to if painting by yourself. The small town of Republic is north and somewhat geographically center of the state of Washington. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The hilly landscape is different from the rain soaked coniferous forests of the Puget Sound, but also different from the arid vistas of Eastern Washington.</div>
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I had such a great time painting there, I hope I could go back again. I even sold a painting! I never got to take a good picture of it, but here it is:</div>
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The people in Republic were nice and welcoming. One of the highlights was meeting this guy who was riding a mustang that he caught and then raised himself! A real life cowboy.</div>
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Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-56622546036129393422020-06-19T18:57:00.001-07:002020-06-19T18:59:16.199-07:00Favorite Paintings 2019: Arboretum Path<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This was a painting done during a paint out with <a href="https://pleinairwashingtonartists.com/">Plein Air Washington Artists</a> group. I really miss painting with my artist friends. This path at the Seattle Arboretum has been the inspiration for many a local painter, including <a href="https://www.scottmilo.com/featured-artists/plein-air-little-gems-2020.html?i=may_walk_in_the_arboretum_4520201351_2174">Jane Wallis's award winning painting</a>. </div>
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At the time I was still trying to figure out how to carry my painting setup on my bike. There's my bicycle with my painting gear, with another painting from the same day. </div>
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It's been quite rainy during the weekends lately, so I haven't yet gotten on my bike to paint this year. The coronavirus has also made logistics a bit tricky with the bathroom situation, but I hope I get the chance to go bike and paint soon!</div>
Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-79791217765535836382020-06-13T22:31:00.003-07:002020-06-13T22:45:38.602-07:002019 Paintings RetrospectiveI set out to do 100 paintings in 2019. It was a big challenge, and I just managed to do my 100th painting on December 30. I put together a highlight video of some of my favorites. Enjoy:<br />
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This was more of challenge than I thought initially, even though most of these were really small paintings. But I feel like I've really improved as an artist by taking on this challenge. I'm a big believer in brush miles; that your work improves just by doing a lot of it. And I've been quite gratified to hear some of my friends actually tell me that my art has visibly improved as they followed my journey on Facebook.<br />
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In addition to practice, I've also taken lessons from <a href="https://www.jimlambstudio.com/">Jim Lamb</a>, <a href="http://www.darrellandersonfineart.com/">Darrell Anderson</a>, gotten some great advice from <a href="http://www.jamiebollenbach.com/">Jamie Bollenbach</a>, and even online critiques from <a href="https://www.philstarke.com/">Phil Starke</a>. One thing I've learned landscape-wise is to not just work on making far things look far via aerial perspective, but also to try to make near things look near, with values, color, and even thickness of paint.<br />
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I'm trying to start blogging more regularly again; I think I'll start by talking about some of the works that I enjoyed the most from last year's series in the next few weeks.<br />
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This was one of my first attempts to combine my passions of riding a bicycle and paint plein air. Thanks to my friend Dan who bought this painting after seeing me post it on Facebook </div>
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<br />Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-80716482982633669242019-03-30T09:08:00.001-07:002019-03-30T09:10:14.997-07:00Father and Child<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I’ve been painting again! I have sort of fell out of the habit of painting with only doing sporadic work in the last couple of years. But this year I resolved to do at least 100 paintings. This is #27, ‘Father and Child’</div>
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I’ve been posting my paintings on Facebook, but thought I should start posting my work on here also. So people can find it without having to be on social media. Unlike posting on Facebook posting on a website is kind of a lonely endeavor, you post something and wonder if anyone out there will ever see it. But I’m tired of this blog being stale, so here’s a painting for you :)Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-6324335387009311822015-11-16T23:23:00.002-08:002015-11-16T23:23:25.337-08:00At the galleryI am really honored, and to be honest, quite surprised that my work got selected into the <a href="http://pleinairwashington.blogspot.com/2015/11/from-meadows-to-mountains.html">Meadows to Mountains</a> show that Plein Air Washington held this year. Being on the same walls as so many of the artists that I admire is quite the thrill.<br />
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Last year, <a href="http://blog.flyingroc.org/2014/11/sammamish-river-bend.html">my entry was rejected</a>, and this year it was accepted. It could just be chance that this year's jurors liked my painting, and last year's did not. But I hope it means that I've grown as a painter. Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-55582526481417551372015-11-05T23:12:00.000-08:002015-11-05T23:27:14.756-08:00Time for applesWhen I was a kid growing up in the Philippines, apples were kind of special. It was a fruit from a faraway temperate climate country. It was expensive and a special treat that you might get to eat at Christmas time. Over the years though, apples got abundant, and now you can get apples pretty much cheaply at any time you want.<br />
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Here in the Pacific Northwest, I know it's fall when the grocery store piles the apples up high. And I am reminded that I live in an incredibly abundant time and in an incredibly abundant place. I am quite thankful for that.Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-88565592916769027262015-10-21T22:51:00.001-07:002015-10-21T22:56:28.892-07:00The Mountain Beyond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
A few weeks back we had <a href="http://pleinairwashington.blogspot.com/2015/10/we-got-on-tv-baker-and-shuksan-paintout.html">a most fun paintout</a> at the Mt. Baker and Mt. Shuksan area, stayinga the mountaineers lodge there with a large group of artists. The mountain in the background here is Mt. Shuksan. This scene was so captivating I did two paintings of it. In this one, I chose to do a fairly abstract treatment, but hopefully still recognizable as a landscape.</div>
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I find this area so inspiring. And to be able to experience it with other artists is an honor and a blessing.</div>
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It is sometimes hard to carve out time to paint when you are traveling with non-artist friends. But on a recent Labor Day trip with some good friends to Whistler, BC, my friends graciously let me paint for a couple hours. This was the result of that effort. It was cold and cloudy up on that mountain, but thankfully it did not rain.</div>
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The biggest challenge for me in this painting was trying to figure out how to separate the sky from the mountains when the snow caps and the light part of the sky had practically the same values. I don't think I succeeded completely here, but hopefully it still has the sense of being up on a mountain on a cloudy day.</div>
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Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-20351131234651381602015-10-05T21:46:00.000-07:002015-10-05T21:48:44.635-07:00Bottles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
As it starts to get colder, I guess I'm starting to gravitate back to still life and figurative painting, though this one was done a few weeks ago. Do I have a style? I kind of think I do, even though I haven't really been focusing on developing one.</div>
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This is a painting of the little chapel in Seattle's Discovery Park. The chapel was built in World War II. I've never seen it open, so I guess it doesn't really get used anymore. It still adds charm to the park though.</div>
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I went to discovery park that day with <a href="http://artlanegallery.com/">Emiliya Lane</a>, who suggested it wen I was looking for a good painting spot in the Seattle area. I'm so glad to have met many artist friends who share these wonderful plein air locations with me.Roy Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150437535835706677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2539616922613430268.post-59761769162138208872015-07-21T22:04:00.001-07:002015-07-21T22:07:58.304-07:00By the pond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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If I haven't been posting much it's because I've been spending a lot of time cycling this summer. And while it is fun, I get home too exhausted to take pictures of my paintings, let alone blog. Cycling is super fun though. I just did the Seattle to Portland bike ride. At 200 miles over 2 days, it's quite the challenge. Here's me on the STP bike ride:</div>
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Both painting and cycling have something in common for me: I'm not naturally good at either! But I enjoy them and I practice at them. And somehow I get better. Back in February, doing even 20 miles was a struggle, and last week I did 200. I hope the same goes with my painting efforts, slowly things that are difficult become less so, and things that seem impossible become only difficult. That is my hope.</div>
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Also, I have to apologize for not posting a painting for nearly a month! I have been painting. I am having a difficult time however with the little details of getting the paintings on my blog. Signing them, taking a decent photo, writing a description, and putting it up for auction. It takes but an hour (sometimes more, writing takes time!), to do all that, but somehow it's difficult to find the time to do it.<br />
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I was looking through pictures I've taken this year, and one picture I took at Sedona really called out to me, so I decided to paint it. My trip to Sedona was a couple of months ago, but it feels like a long time has passed already. It was a truly inspiring location.</div>
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Have you had that experience where you are in a wooded area and the whole scene in front of you evokes both wonder and calm? Then you get your camera and take a picture of it, and all you get is a wall of unappetizing green. The reason, I think is that what we feel in the woods is only partly what we see. It's also the cool breeze we feel, the rustling of the leaves, the crunch of the ground underfoot as we walk. It's not easy to take a picture of that, and it's not easy to paint it either.</div>
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P.S., I did not grow up in the US, so I actually don't know a lot about what the local flora are called. But my fellow artists helpfully mentioned that these were alder trees I was painting.</div>
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Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island is a stunningly beautiful park in the middle of the island. The grounds are superbly maintained, and I encourage people to go visit when they are in Bainbridge. This willow by the pond really caught my eye, and it was quite impossible to ignore, really.</div>
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Dealing with all the greens were quite a challenge for me with this painting. Also, you might have noticed my recent efforts at trying to get better drawing accuracy. Getting tree forms to look like a certain kind of tree rather than just a mass of green was also quite the challenge.</div>
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My last few paintings seem to contain water in them. Water is so essential to life that I think as human beings we are hardwired to being captivated by it. That's my excuse anyway.</div>
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