by Andy Dolphin | Mar 6, 2018 | landscape, limited palette, oil painting, plein air, tutorial, video, Woolorama
Wheatbelt White Gum 25x30cm oil on board. © Andy Dolphin I posted this painting back in December and mentioned that I had shot video of the process. Well, I’ve finally got it edited, narrated and posted on Youtube. In the narration for this one, I discuss my...
by Andy Dolphin | Feb 2, 2018 | landscape, oil painting, plein air, sunset
I have actually been doing a bit of painting in recent weeks. I just haven’t been doing any blogging. This will fix that, at least for a while. On a wonderfully hot day a few weeks ago, I jumped in the car and drove around aimlessly for a few hours. I headed...
by Andy Dolphin | Dec 15, 2017 | available, landscape, limited palette, oil painting, plein air
Yesterday afternoon, I packed the car and headed north. The plan, as I told my wife, was “to drive half-way to Kojonup”. Koji, as it’s often called, is about 100km north from home and I ended up travelling about 55km to somewhere between Cranbrook...
by Andy Dolphin | Oct 1, 2017 | landscape, plein air, video
Following a long weekend of interesting weather, in which we managed record spring rainfall – and flooding throughout the region – I went out painting on a beautiful spring afternoon, last Thursday. I had been out in the morning with the plein air artists...
by Andy Dolphin | Sep 17, 2017 | plein air
I recently tagged along with the Albany plein air painters – a group of artists who choose a new location around Albany to paint or sketch every Thursday morning. Here’s some of my efforts from the last couple of weeks, including this week’s trip to the...
by Andy Dolphin | Jul 28, 2017 | newstuff, oil painting, plein air, step-by-step, tips, tutorial
When I travelled to the John Wilson workshop in Katoomba last February, I had to devise a plan for bringing wet paintings home in my luggage. I made two wet-panel-carrier boxes from plywood, using balsa wood for the divider strips, but I also needed something for...
