A lense from Ohio, painter Rebecca Grantham

I just love the matching colors for the background and text. My name is in the index copyrighted.
I also received two cover flats and will be sending one to the owner of the painting.

Enjoy the beautiful fall colors and sunlight.
Cheers Rebecca

detail picture, click each for larger views

This piece has been sold. and will be published by Houghton Mifflin.

Each Panel Measures 5.5" x 12" on Gallery Wrap Canvas .
This piece is best told as half and half.
The sky and clouds were painted outside on site and the black-eyed susan flowers were inspired from a photo I took recently.

With this piece I wanted to capture the joy that swells in me and the summer memories I feel whenever I see black-eyed susans.

~Rebecca
RebeccaGrantham.com

Plein Air or en plein air, is a French phrase that translates "in the open air". This term is used to describe paintings that have been created chiefly outdoors, rather than in the studio. Photo reference is not used.

The roots of plein air painting from life are found in 19th-century Europe with John Constable and at the same time the Barbizon group near France with their sketch books in hand outside in the natural life combined they laid the ground work for the Impressionist Giants, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Winslow Homer, Camille Pissarro, and John Singer Sargent. Who challenged and revolutionized the truth of the eye, form, light and color.

Plein air's popularity has been aided by the development of easily portable painting equipment and materials. Such as the pochade box and the wonderful ingenuity of artists, from tackle boxes to backpacks, if they can pack it they go and find it. Artists continue to invent ways to transport themselves and their supplies to a site that begs to be captured.

Alla Prima is a title given to artworks that are created completely, in one session on site, from start to finish.

Completed on site is to be used for a work where more than one session is used to complete the piece, there should be no more work done once the painting has left the site.

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