“View in Schlickenreith.”
Finally, we are on holiday. Lots of driving, but, so far the traffic was fine, hence we made good progress.
Second evening since we left home and we stopped in Perbersdorf, near Neuhofen an der Ybbs in North west Austria. Lovely place, but not enough time to visit (unfortunately).
Anyway, we looked around, we walked and we drove and we managed to find this little lane and around some trees there was a bench. And that was where we set up the easel.
This was my first plein air painting in a long time, nearly half a year. So, I was a bit nervous.
I didn’t like how the painting was going, so whipped out as much as I could, cropped the view and started again on top. I was using an AMPERSAND board, which didn’t help much either, as I am not used to a board, I normally paint on linen canvas (stretched).
I used paints from Blue Ridge (mostly), with few exceptions, Italian Genuine Cassel being one of them.
I used a relatively reduced palette, as I’m used to, recently, two yellows, three blues, a red and two browns, plus white.
I didn’t use any medium, just turps and used thick paint with heavy brush strokes.
So, here it is:
“View in Schlickenreith.”
Oil on AMPERSAND panel.
20 X 25cm (8” X 10”).
