A Plein Air Life » Painting

Painting “Beach Hat”

Rich Brimer — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:01:03 +0000

Today was a perfectly beautiful day in Camarillo, CA, my hometown. I joined about 15 other artists who shared their works of art in many downtown merchants who were hosting wine tastings. Lots of people came to join us drink wine and enjoy art. I also enjoyed getting started on a new painting “Beach [...]

Beach Colors Redeaux

Rich Brimer — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:41:34 +0000

So, I took an old plein air painting I did at Leo Carillo a couple years ago, and redid it. I was not happy the first time anyway, so it was a good opportunity to try some new paint out. You can see the change from the first go, to the new version below.

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Pondering with Paint

Rich Brimer — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:04:04 +0000

I have been painting again. This weekend I was with a fantastic colorist and impressionistic painter David Gallup. It was a wonderful time of conversation, philosophy and most of all COLOR. It was a real eye opener for me about using paint that I have never had on my palate. He is really one [...]

Huntington Beach Plein Air

Rich Brimer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:44:18 +0000

Today the Huntington Beach Plein Air Festival closes. I had the three paintings below in the event, plus one that was offered up for the “Painting in the Streets” event. I love

Central Ducks, Always Welcome, Triangle Sun

Lucy and this guy

Ray of Hope - 48" x 48" Acrylic on Birch Panel

A few months ago I was asked to consider painting during a Sunday Morning church service. In fact, there was an opportunity to paint during more than one. Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Ventura is doing a summer series of outdoor services, so [...]

San Clemente Plein Air

Rich Brimer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:04:24 +0000

So, on Friday (June 19th) I will be leaving the daily grind to be a gypsy artist for a week. I will take my newly gesso-ed birch panels with me to San Onofre Beach where it will be my outpost for the week. San Clemente hosts a week long Plein Air competition and [...]

Christmas Eve 4 – Follow-up

Rich Brimer — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:56:22 +0000

So, painting for 5 Christmas Eve services was not as hard as I psyc’ed myself out for. It actually got much easier each service. The thing that I was not figuring on was that there were three pastors preaching three different sermons at these five services. Each used the painting to illustrate the sermon [...]

Christmas Eve 2

Rich Brimer — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:56:41 +0000

So, I got a LOT accomplished today which was VERY necessary if I am going to pull off this HUGE task. With the help of my son Nick today, I built five 48″ wood panels with 2×2 frames that were stapled to the back. Then I put a first coat of flat house paint [...]

Painting Christmas Eve

Rich Brimer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:07:58 +0000

Here is am painting in front of another audience for an event to raise money for a building water wells in Kenya.

I wanted to tell you about a Christmas Eve gig I got today. I will be going to Mission Viejo to do a 48″ x 48″ painting at each of FIVE [...]