A Plein Air Life » africa http://richbrimer.com/blog Living out in the open Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:42:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 2006-2008 richbrimer@gmail.com (Rich Brimer) richbrimer@gmail.com (Rich Brimer) posts 1440 Living Life in the Open Rich Brimer Rich Brimer richbrimer@gmail.com No no http://richbrimer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/afa-bg.jpg A Plein Air Life http://richbrimer.com/blog 144 144 47 http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/12/47/ http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/12/47/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:52:05 +0000 Rich Brimer http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=1013

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]]> http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/12/47/feed/ 0 “Face of Love” being Exhibited at BIOLA http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/08/face-of-love-being-exhibited-at-biola/ http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/08/face-of-love-being-exhibited-at-biola/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:01:22 +0000 Rich Brimer http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=917 Yesterday I sent off the four completed diptychs in my “Face of Love” series. The went with John Alderson and his son Bryce to BIOLA University for an exhibit that will last the entire semester. It will be in the foyer of one of the buildings on campus. I will post photos of the [...]]]> http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/08/face-of-love-being-exhibited-at-biola/feed/ 1 Thirsty 8 http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/05/thirsty-8/ http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/05/thirsty-8/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 19:03:18 +0000 Rich Brimer http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=784 OK… I am getting closer. I have at least put some effort into ALL of the faces now. I have quite a lot left to do on each to tweak them but I can start to see where this is all going. I plan to finish this week with it because there is a [...]]]> http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/05/thirsty-8/feed/ 0 Thirsty 7 http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/04/thirsty-7/ http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/04/thirsty-7/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:48:56 +0000 Rich Brimer http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=753 So, I got a lot more progress done tonight on this painting. I was not ever that satisfied on having the large hand coming in from off screen on the bottom right. I felt it was to “present” and drawing too much attention to itself because of its size and being in the foreground. [...]]]> http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/04/thirsty-7/feed/ 0 Thirsty 5 http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/03/thirsty-5/ http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/03/thirsty-5/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:10:44 +0000 Rich Brimer http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=674 You may not be able to see much difference, but I worked on the shirts a lot this weekend. Here is a couple of closeups of one and an overall shot.

http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=660 Here are a couple of closeups of my painting. I love how the light can make such simple shapes to tell the story of this kids face… but there is STILL much work to be done. More online soon.

[...]]]> http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/03/thirsty-4/feed/ 2 Thirsty 3 http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/02/thirsty-3/ http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/02/thirsty-3/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:38:02 +0000 Rich Brimer http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=628 So, I have actually been working on this painting a bit over the past month, but honestly, it is difficult to be motivated when the garage studio is 45 degrees. I have a space heater now but it costs a lot to run and it all the heat gets sucked out as soon as [...]]]> http://richbrimer.com/blog/2009/02/thirsty-3/feed/ 0 Thirsty 2 http://richbrimer.com/blog/2008/12/thirsty-2/ http://richbrimer.com/blog/2008/12/thirsty-2/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:45:04 +0000 Rich Brimer http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=590

Here you can see that I have begun to block in the four figures on the left panel. There is a lot of work left to get the faces right, but I am well on my way to a good start. I have been off line with this painting for a [...]]]> http://richbrimer.com/blog/2008/12/thirsty-2/feed/ 1 Thirsty 1 http://richbrimer.com/blog/2008/12/thirsty-1/ http://richbrimer.com/blog/2008/12/thirsty-1/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:15:58 +0000 Rich Brimer http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=566

So, here is the very first early sketch of a new painting. This is the 4th of my “Face of Love” series. After drawing it with pencil, I began to do a wash of burnt umber and walnut oil. I will not be able to get back to it [...]]]> http://richbrimer.com/blog/2008/12/thirsty-1/feed/ 0 Advent Conspiracy http://richbrimer.com/blog/2008/12/advent-conspiracy/ http://richbrimer.com/blog/2008/12/advent-conspiracy/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:52:03 +0000 Rich Brimer http://richbrimer.com/blog/?p=569

…we conspired together!!!

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