by Dawn Chandler | Mar 31, 2015 | en plein air
Yesterday was Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday (March 30, 1854). Happy Birthday Vincent! I could think of no finer way to honor him than by getting outside and painting en plein air—my first outdoor excursion of the year! Hooray! Nor can imagine a more surefire and...
by Dawn Chandler | Oct 1, 2014 | aspens, autumn, en plein air, new mexico landscapes, Santa Fe, trees
I can’t resist. I’ve got to be up there among them. To lose myself among the gold coins of leaves — a world’s ransom of gold leaf.My new home in town gives me a fine vantage point from which to observe the mountains and their mood. And so it was one...
by Dawn Chandler | Sep 16, 2014 | en plein air, newsletter, santa fe new mexico, wee little contest
lo·co ˈlōcō/ adjective informal adjective: loco crazy. Origin late 19th century: from Spanish, ‘insane.’ Evidently I’m loco, for I’m giving away free art again. Congratulations to Mr. CW Webb of Texas who read my summer edition of my online newsletter...
by Dawn Chandler | Aug 14, 2014 | en plein air, landscape painting, new mexico landscapes, oil painting, santa fe ashbaugh park, travel, water-soluble oil paints
My quandary in June was what art supplies to bring on a 3-week road trip. I had been having such fun this spring doing my little 5″x7″ plein-air oil paintings with my cool little Guerilla Thumb Box, that I really kinda wanted to do that: Bring oils. But...
by Dawn Chandler | May 1, 2014 | Albuquerque, cottonwoods, en plein air, landscape painting, santa fe ashbaugh park, santa fe new mexico, spring, trees
coming into leaf ~ ashbaugh park, santa fe ~ by dawn chandler ~ oil on panel (en plein air ~ 5″ x 7″ ~ copyright dawn chandler 2014Despite a hard frost last night and the night before, spring has arrived in New Mexico. I know for sure, because I’ve...
by Dawn Chandler | Apr 6, 2014 | en plein air, oil painting, santa fe ashbaugh park, spring, trees
first plein air painting of the year with my totally cool new guerrilla pocket box paint kit. A day of firsts!My first plein air painting of the year AND my first oil painting of the year AND my first use of my sweet, sweet little Geurrilla Painter “Pocket...
