Account of Lisa Egeli's landscape demonstration at the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association!

 

This was my first time at a MAPAPA meeting. 

 

Lisa Egeli, doing a demo out of her head. 

 

Materials:  Surface…Gator board with prepared linen glued to it.

She holds a large palette with permalba white, cadmium yellow lite, medium, orange, red lite, yellow ochre, alizarin, burnt sienna, viridian, sap green, cerulean blue, ultramarine blue, and ivory black tube colors. 

Her medium is ¾ turp, ¼ linseed oil.  It’s in the little jar on the stand.  

She held her brushes in her left hand, and kept rags in her right pocket. 

 

The light is afternoon light, and we are looking north/north-east.

 

Her first step was to draw the marsh with burnt umber.  Horizon line above middle of board so focus is on ground.  It is a simple and powerful composition. 

 

 

Next she added green, and ochre and purple sky, for “spring color.”  Some shadows in the trees, Ultblue + burnt sienna.  The shadows looked warm compared to the trees. 

She deliberately made the reflection brushstrokes vertical, and emphasized that water must appear flat, as if in a water glass.

 

Lisa Egeli showed the shallow mud bottom of the creek in the foreground with warm colors, and decided her focal point would be the marsh area to the right of the center.

She emphasized the importance of “sculpting” with the brush to give the illusion

of form. 

 

This is the final painting, after a couple of hours.  Quite impressive!

 

It was a great demo.