Plein Air Painting:
Capturing the Truth and Beauty
of the Landscape
October 4, 2011 7-9pm
San Luis Obispo Art Museum in San Luis Obispo, CA
Admission to the lecture is free.
You are invited to join Libby Tolley for an evening slide presentation on Landscape Painting as she shares her paintings and her thoughts about plein air and studio painting.
Libby will explain and show how she gets to know the heartbeat of the land and is able to go from transcribing the landscape to translating it. Choosing the subject, simplifying, color and design all work together to express the poetry of the land.
As important as working on location is for developing an artist's sensitivity to light, color and shape, a studio is an important place for study and creating large works.
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| Sweet Springs 2011 |
Libby will explain and show how she gets to know the heartbeat of the land and is able to go from transcribing the landscape to translating it. Choosing the subject, simplifying, color and design all work together to express the poetry of the land.
As important as working on location is for developing an artist's sensitivity to light, color and shape, a studio is an important place for study and creating large works.
Plein Air, Studio, field sketches and paintings in progress will be displayed during the lecture.
During the evening she will talk about the path she took and continues to take in developing as an artist.
At the end of the evening Libby will be available to sign her book, Oil Painter's Solution Book.
At the end of the evening Libby will be available to sign her book, Oil Painter's Solution Book.
Libby is this year’s award juror at the San Luis Obispo Plein Air Festival. Her painting, "Daybreak" won the Best of Show Award in the 2006 Festival. In 2010 she received the best of show in the Glenna Hartmann Memorial Invitational for her painting, "Into the Light".
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| August afternoon in Sweet Springs 2011 |
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| Made in the shade... Gwen on location September 14 |