Ho Chi Minh Trail

Ho Chi Minh Trail

6" x 6"

Oil on Panel

You might be suprised by what I'm going to say about this plein air painting. If your a painter you can relate. After riding my mountainbike at Memorial Park for a while I thought I'd grab my painting gear and head out somewhere to paint. The weather was overcast and potential for rain. Never did rain though. What happened was after spotting this spot and setting up my tripod and pochade box I discovered my palette was not there. What, no palette? A little panic ensued but no fear I'll figure out something. Well I thought I'd do a monochrome study and mix some paint in my medium cup cap. That started out ok but I decided I need color in this and out of shear determination to paint this scene I started using my rag and putting down blobs of color and loading the brush and mixing it on the rag. It worked out pretty well actually minus the oily hands though. Not bad for a rag palette.

Click to Purchase $75 includes s/h

If your wondering how I price my paintings usually if I have to go a ways to paint which this was the case and the spot was not an easyone to get to I charge more. Most paintings fall into the $50 range like the studio paintings but some plein air paintings are $50. Of course the bigger they are the more I charge.

One more thing, if your into mountainbiking check the video in an earlier post.