tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36706854278350839932024-02-07T13:00:50.703-08:00Barry John Raybould<a href="http://www.barryjohnraybould.com">Oil Paintings by Barry John Raybould. </a> Self-study courses: <a href="http://www.VirtualArtAcademy.com">Virtual Art Academy</a>. Workshops: <a href="http://tuscany-painting-workshop.blogspot.it/">Tuscany Workshops</a>Barry John Raybouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853860380672958348noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670685427835083993.post-14196931343920970962018-11-21T07:44:00.001-08:002021-09-18T01:41:43.126-07:00Hello all friends here!<br />
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This summer I did a painting expedition to Qinghai, a largely Tibetan province in north western China. There was a Buddhist festival taking place with a temporary tent town of tens of thousands of Tibetans. There were some great compositions with the brightly colored clothing and tents.</div>
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On account of its high altitude, the light in Xinjiang in China is even more intense than that of California or Tuscany where I have a studio. It was around midday and very hot when I was painting in this small Kasakh village, so I hid behind a large wall to get out of the heat. The village is as yet undeveloped and still has many original mud and straw buildings which give it a warm and welcoming feeling.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3px; text-align: start;">PS The photo of my painting is not accurate. I took it hastily under interior warm light. The actual colors are much truer to nature. But of course even though the photo is warmer, all of the internal relationships are accurately picked up by the camera.</span></div>
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This is the plein air painting setup I was using on my recent painting trip to Mauritius. I am using a Mastersen seal palette box mounted onto a tripod using an Easel Butler. I put the palette in a big freezer overnight to slow down the drying of the paint. This system gave me much more palette mixing area to work with, which I find helps with finding a good color harmony.</div>
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This is a plein air painting I did on my recent trip to California and the Big Sur Coastline. This was one of my favorite places to paint during my time living in California. I was originally hoping for an evening of shimmering light on the water, but the actual evening developed in a very different direction. There was a faint sliver of light on the horizon where the sun was setting beneath a band of clouds. In the end I liked this effect since it let me concentrate on the emerald green hues in the water and their contrast with some of the rich oranges in the foreground vegetation.</div>
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If you look closely at the painting, you will see that I am using a combination of watercolor techniques such as thin washes, as well as impasto oil painting techniques. This is something I have been experimenting with in some of my recent work. It may have some relation to my exposure these days to the work of several traditional Chinese painting masters during my work in China.</div>
Virtual Art Academy®http://www.blogger.com/profile/12471426957135994286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670685427835083993.post-71058978169981599862015-12-30T01:07:00.003-08:002015-12-30T01:15:46.000-08:00The sunsets on the grass plains of Zhaosu in Xinjiang, China are amazing. The grasslands are 5000 feet above sea level and the light here is very intense The surrounding snow covered mountains add to the light drama. You have just a few moments to capture the light before it changes.<br />
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Barry John Raybouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853860380672958348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670685427835083993.post-2199444846985967182015-03-15T02:30:00.002-07:002015-03-15T03:23:11.817-07:00Stormy Sky in MauritiusAn interesting sky in Mauritius after the rain. I liked the emerald green color of the ocean contrasting with the beautiful gray sky, and the forms of the clouds. (9"x12" oil on board). Had great fun painting here.<br />
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Barry John Raybouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853860380672958348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670685427835083993.post-60416024528006375822014-11-22T10:05:00.002-08:002014-11-22T13:58:32.806-08:00Unlikely inspiration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Sometimes inspiration for a painting comes from unlikely places, such as this farm in Xinjiang, China which was used as a barbecue and party area. The bright red boxes of what is called 'white wine' in China (actually a strong spirit that is used on social occasions) are a nice contrast against the soft muted greens of the woodland. The interesting thing is that if you look at the photo below, you cannot really see the color harmonies and beauty that is in the painting. I could not have painted this from a photograph and got the same result. Yet when I was actually at the scene, you could see the color harmony and abstract possibilities quite clearly. Maybe it was because the light had changed by the time I took the photograph, or maybe it was because the camera did not capture accurately the colors I was actually seeing? I'm not sure. Anyway I was quite happy with the result. I had great fun too with the brushwork. I included a couple of closeups so you can see the brushwork more clearly.</div>
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For those of your interested in painting composition, the painting uses a <a href="http://www.virtualartacademy.com/community/lessons/glossary_double_split_complementary_color_harmony" target="_blank">double split complementary</a> color harmony, with a dominant gray <a href="http://www.virtualartacademy.com/community/lessons/glossary_double_split_complementary_color_harmony" target="_blank">notan</a> structure, a <a href="http://www.virtualartacademy.com/community/lessons/glossary_contrast_temperature" target="_blank">contrast of temperature</a> where the <a href="http://www.virtualartacademy.com/community/lessons/glossary_cool_colors" target="_blank">cool</a> colors are <a href="http://www.virtualartacademy.com/community/lessons/glossary_dominant" target="_blank">dominant</a>, <a href="http://www.virtualartacademy.com/community/lessons/glossary_contrast_saturation" target="_blank">contrast of saturation</a>, an abstract design based on <a href="http://www.virtualartacademy.com/community/lessons/glossary_point_line_mass" target="_blank">point, line, mass</a> and an <a href="http://www.virtualartacademy.com/community/lessons/glossary_organizational_structure" target="_blank">organizational structure</a> based on radiant lines.</div>
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Not that I had time to think about those things while I was actually doing the painting, because I was too preoccupied with swatting the mosquitoes that were starting to bite me. One day in that painting location was enough! The next day I headed higher into the mountains and painted studies for <a href="http://barryjohnraybould.com/three-friends/" target="_blank">the three friends</a>.</div>
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<br />Barry John Raybouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853860380672958348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670685427835083993.post-58302357980101169542014-04-18T01:58:00.001-07:002014-04-18T01:58:36.137-07:00Painting in HunanMy painting trip to China has just come to an end. I ended up getting invited to paint in a small village in Hunan where the red army hid out fifty years ago! The area has very characteristic mountain shapes and has been turned into some kind of plein air painters retreat.
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I found myself part of a group with 30 university instructors, their students, and several well known painters from Beijing. The group included two of China's most famous contemporary landscape painters Wang KeJu, and Chen HeXi.
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One of the nice things about the place was that all the nice painting spots had special shelters built so the painters can shelter from the sun and rain! Now that's what I call an "artist friendly" place!
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Barry John Raybouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853860380672958348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670685427835083993.post-26265419554345669702013-12-19T23:26:00.002-08:002013-12-19T23:34:25.254-08:00Golden light<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I finally arrived in Clarens, about a three and a half hour drive from Johannesburg, for the first of in the series of my three South Africa Plein Air Painting workshosp, to meet a wonderful and enthusiastic group of artist from all over the northern regions of South Africa. We stayed at Sir Henry's guest house in Clarens where Ralph and Janine did a splendid job of looking after us in their beautiful B&B surrounded by lovely gardens. The roses were in full bloom and perfect for our color studies.</span></div>
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Clarens is set in wonderful scenery with the Golden Gate National Park very close, but the highlight of the week had to be the wonderful experiences we had with the children of the local 'informal' settlement. This was shanty town on the outskirts of Clarens. It was a wealth of artistic material. The brightly colored clothes of the local people contrasted with the grays of the surrounding landscape, and the various dwellings cobbled together from sheets of tin, colorful wooden boards, and the occasional more traditional construction materials of mud and sticks, provided an endless variety of interesting shapes for abstract compositions.</div>
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In the painting above I was interested in capturing the beautiful grays of the landscape with the occasional accent of saturated color from the buildings and the hat of a man who was fixing his fence. The dirt path provided an interesting abstract foreground shape and formed a natural lead in to the composition.<br />
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This was the path up to the informal settlement. Although the houses were very basic, they all had a wonderful view over the valley and the mountains. </div>
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I gave some of my art instruction books to a young teenager called Tebello who seemed particularly keen to learn. All the other kids gathered around while I was explaining what to do. That's me under the hat!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">The kids were all lining up for me to sketch their portraits. When I had finished sketching them, one of them asked me to give him my sketchbook and pen so he could draw my portrait! When I finished painting, they all jostled to help me pack up. Before I could even speak, one of them grabbed my brushes and started to clean them, another started to loosen the screws on my pochade, and a third was collapsing my tripod. Another just painted his face with my left over white paint!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">On the way home they grabbed all of our equipment from us and carried it to the car. This was a painting experience I will never forget!</span><br />
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<br />Barry John Raybouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853860380672958348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670685427835083993.post-77888255970705725942012-06-30T09:42:00.001-07:002012-07-09T03:40:21.093-07:00Tuscany spring wild flowersThe wildflowers in my new Tuscany studio are wonderful this year. I let the garden go wild and all kinds of beautiful flowers have come up. I did this quick plein air sketch from the back of the house yesterday.<br />
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Four Virtual Art Academy students were amongst the top six featured in a recent painting challenge for Australian Artist Magazine. The exercise was to draw a single fruit. Congratulations to all four of them!Barry John Raybouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853860380672958348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670685427835083993.post-74059937185923654572011-12-08T08:09:00.001-08:002011-12-08T08:24:39.033-08:00Monthly Lesson for December - Color NotansI just wrote a lesson on color notans for the December Virtual Art Academy newsletter. You can get a free copy by signing up for the <a href="http://www.virtualartacademy.com/guest.html" target="_blank">guest Virtual Art Academy</a> newsletter here.<br />
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