{"id":590,"date":"2017-05-25T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2023-07-10T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T04:05:24","slug":"artist-in-residence-in-yosemite-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/25\/artist-in-residence-in-yosemite-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist in Residence in Yosemite &#8211; Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-597\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-597\" src=\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/InProgressAndersonsCabin05_18_2017.jpg\" alt=\"Anderson's Cabin Image\" width=\"372\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/InProgressAndersonsCabin05_18_2017.jpg 372w, http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/InProgressAndersonsCabin05_18_2017-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 85vw, 372px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My days work, \u00a9 2017 Trowzers Akimbo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We traveled out to paint, a large group, this final day, Sunday, May 13th, of my week-long <em>Yosemite Renaissance<\/em> artist in residence stay in <em>Yosemite<\/em>. The painters, in addition to myself, included Terry Robinson, Lura &amp; Kerby Smith and Vicki Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to avoid the tourist insanity that was going in the Valley on Saturday&nbsp;and select a painting location closer to the cabin. Our first choice was <em>Alder Creek, b<\/em>ut the two ladies in our group were leery of navigating the steep drop, while carrying there painting equipment from our parking location, along the roadway, to the bank of the&nbsp;creek. Lura had recently injured her leg and wasn&#8217;t sure how well it would hold up traveling down the steep trail. While beautiful, the vistas offered by<em> Alder Creek <\/em>were too similar to the churning water paintings I&#8217;d created of <em>Chilnualna Falls<\/em>&nbsp;the first 3 days of my stay, for me to bother&nbsp;nudging the ladies down the hill<em>. <\/em>We decided to choose a location from the offerings of<em> Wawona&#8217;s Pioneer Village.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 30px 30px 0px 0px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MVvD_PT0s7I?rel=0\" width=\"320\" height=\"303\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p>After individually scouting the many offerings presented by the <em>Pioneer Village<\/em>, we all independently &nbsp;set up in front of the <em>Anderson Mountaineer&#8217;s Cabin. <\/em>There&#8217;s plenty to choose from, as far as painting goes, here, I highly recommend it as a painting destination, if you&#8217;re in Yosemite. The local artist group I belong to,<em> Yosemite Western Artists<\/em>, travel up here as a&nbsp;plein air group often to paint. In fact, they&#8217;re heading up there again today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-614\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-614\" src=\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/plaque.jpg\" alt=\"Anderson's Cabin Plaque Photo\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/plaque.jpg 504w, http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/plaque-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 85vw, 504px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 2017 Kerby Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-612\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-612\" src=\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/me-full-body-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Trowzers, Terry &amp; Vicki Painting Photo\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/me-full-body-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/me-full-body.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 2017 Kerby Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At one point during the day we were joined by a visiting artist, who plopped down on an available log bench and began an ink drawing of&nbsp;the cabin in his small sketchbook. We introduced ourselves and he shared the drawing on which&nbsp;he&#8217;d&nbsp;been working. Turns out he and his son have got a challenge going to each do at least one drawing a day. I love the people you meet when you&#8217;re out painting plein air and in a location like Yosemite, those you meet are from around the world. Someone looking over my shoulder, as I work, told me I was new <em>Bob Ross<\/em>. Whether that&#8217;s a complement or a cut depends on how you feel about Mr. Ross. Must have been my &#8220;happy little trees.&#8221; Given the enthusiasm of the delivery, I&#8217;m sure it was meant as a compliment. That&#8217;s how I&#8217;m going to accept it, anyway!<\/p>\n<p>We put in another long day, wrapping around 5pm, when the sun began shining through the backside of our canvases.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-613\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-613\" src=\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/me-painting-cabin-early-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Trowzers Painting Indirectly Photo\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/me-painting-cabin-early-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/me-painting-cabin-early.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indirect painting, \u00a9 2017 Kerby Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those of you who&#8217;ve been following these posts may recall that I set out on this week-long outing, switching from my normal <em>indirect painting<\/em> approach to <em>direct painting<\/em> to see if that technique would be faster and allow me to complete a plein air painting in a single day. Well, unhappy with the direct painting results, I switched back to my indirect painting technique on Day 5, the <em>Half Dome<\/em> painting from <em>Glacier Point<\/em>. I paint from dark to light, realizing that the darks are the <em>armature<\/em> that paintings are built upon. Direct painting required me to constantly clean my brushes and mix up darks of various hues. When I paint plein air <em>indirectly<\/em>, my underpainting is a monochrome turp wash (50% painting medium, 50% solvent) of ink blue, requiring no brush cleaning or additional color mixing. I get all my darks down more quickly (critical, given the rapidly&nbsp;changing light with plein air painting) and can move on to the opaque laying in of medium and light polychrome values. I&#8217;m much happier with the end results of this approach.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is, I just don&#8217;t like my plein air painting final results. They look like color sketches to me. I can&#8217;t help but feel they require&nbsp;more time to deserve hanging in a frame. While I love the process of painting plein air (you absorb information about the scene unavailable painting from photos alone). In future,&nbsp;I think if the result warrants it, I&#8217;m just going to use the&nbsp;plein air painting as a&nbsp;color&nbsp;sketch for a&nbsp;larger, more finished painting.<\/p>\n<p>As the day ended, I put my visitors in their vehicles, wished them a safe trip home and after a quick clean-up of the cabin, started down the mountain to my home in Oakhurst&#8230;a melancholy ending to a wonderful, fruitful week with friends!<\/p>\n<p>P.S: I&#8217;ve just been informed there&#8217;s going to be a show of the work produced during the week, at Gallery 5, in Oakhurst, CA in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned to my blog for the details, which I&#8217;ll post once they&#8217;re available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We traveled out to paint, a large group, this final day, Sunday, May 13th, of my week-long Yosemite Renaissance artist in residence stay in Yosemite. The painters, in addition to myself, included Terry Robinson, Lura &amp; Kerby Smith and Vicki Thomas. We decided to avoid the tourist insanity that was going in the Valley on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/25\/artist-in-residence-in-yosemite-day-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Artist in Residence in Yosemite &#8211; Day 7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[48,4,50,8,49,40,47,20,44],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}