Art in the open 2011 group exhibition

There was a long queue outside of the Greenacres Gallery. I think everyone from Wexford town entered the show!

Grand!

Tony and David.

John Dinan checking out the works of David Diaz and Marsha Savage.

Time for speeches.
Mayor of Wexford and Neil O´Keeffe.

Marsha Savage, she did those excellent pastels on the left!

Paul O´Kane, The Flute Player


John Dinan, Jimmy´s drum. Sold.

Keith Thomson, Main Street In The Rain, Wexford.

Paul Maloney´s painting in the middle.

My paintings.


Finally it's was time to enjoy all the great paintings that had been painted only in these few days. It doesnt get more contemporary then this!
Greenacres was fully packed with beautiful people and paintings.
Congratulations for all the winners!
Special thanks for Tony Robinson and Neil O´Keeffe for making this excellent event possible.

ps. check out the full list of registered Artists:
IN HERE

Art In The Open 2011 Sunday update

I painted these old castle ruins in the morning.
Then I went to check out plein air demonstration by David Diaz.
Here is some work in progress photos.

Thank you David. We learned a lot!
It actually turned out to be sunny and warm day, right after the demo. :)

Art In The Open 2011 saturday update

It's been fantastic!

We practically invaded Wexford today and we had this 2 hour speed painting competition.
I got lucky and even got some help from the young artists.
Thank you Ethan and Michael!

Don Maier did this excellent painting.

Paul Maloney painted a lot of these wonderful street scenes.

David Diaz painting, Kilmore Quay.

Art in the open 2011

Wexford is such a beautiful location with plenty of painting subjects!

Today we are heading to Kilmore Quay to do some plein air painting. I am really looking forward to meet a lot of artists!

I am off to Ireland

I painted this nice little brook today,
just to see if I need anything else,
because tomorror morning I´ll be off to
Ireland's Festival of Plein Air Painting!! Super cool!

Check it out:
http://www.artintheopen.org/

I try to post as much as possible during the event!

ITS A BOY!

"Junior"
2011

Our third child was on born on last friday.
I just had to paint a portrait of him as soon as we got home.
We could not be happier!

Morning swim

"Morning swim"
70 x 87 cm
Oil on linen 2011

Summer evening

Secret door

"Secret door"
Oil on canvas, 2011

I tought that i get serious for a change and took a bit bigger canvas.
Plan A was to scram as much detail in the foliage as possible. I think I got what I wanted.
Plan B was to paint the blossoming apple tree right next to this place, but I do that tomorrow since this took me the whole day.

Laundry day

I did some laundry in the morning. Great day to paint!

Changing weather

Vacation

I am on my vacation for a week and hopefully the weather allows me to paint every day.Here is today's effort.

PleinAir painting in Rekola

Today I painted a couple of pleinairs after work.

Now I am trying to get this mobile upload to work.. :)

In the beginning stages..

New day

"New day"
Oil on linen canvas, 60 x 40 cm
2011

Plein air painting with the guys

"Stones"
Oil on linen canvas, 32 x 55 cm.
2011

Arto painting and listening to Chopin.

The final inspection on my painting.

Guys making the finishing touches.

Pigtails

"Pigtails"
Oil on linen canvas, 61 x 46 cm
2011

Today I just had to paint something, anything, on any surface.

So I demolished the painting I started earlier by just painting on top of that.
Usually I dont re-use canvases, but the paint was still wet and it worked out allright tehnically.

I am also looking foward of tomorrow´s painting trip with Mauri and Arto.

Mea´s portrait sketch

"Mea´s portrait sketch"
Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm
2011

We did this portrait sketch of my daughter.
She painted the background herself with very vivid colors!
We had super fun!