Plein-Airing in the Snow

[@NancyTipton-u8e]

I really admire how you persevered thru the “ugly stage” and continued thru till you produced a really wonderful painting! Thank you for sharing.😊

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@NancyTipton-u8e Thank you, Nancy! I appreciate the kind words. 🙏😀🎨

[@michaelressler3189]

Just found you in my feed and subscribed! You are an inspiration and very talented.

[@robertstephson7455]

I love the way you are intentional with each stroke, and are feeling your way down to the very edges of the bristles. You're not just "shmooshing" paint and "abusing" the brushes like so many do. I also like the way you wryly talk to yourself (with us listening in!)

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@robertstephson7455 Well, that scrubbing brush used to be a flat, so I haven't treated it as nicely as I could have. 😆😆 Thank you. 🙏

[@daleg9355]

First time here. I like your subject choice as it helped me see how to find something in a scene where everything can appear to look the same or overwhelmingly complex, and therefore easy to overlook finding something to paint. I enjoyed seeing it develop into a great plein air painting. I especially enjoyed your stream of consciousness and sense of humor.

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@daleg9355 It is hard to narrow it down, especially when everything's so beautiful. Fortunately, the weather and daylight gave me a forced time limit -- otherwise, I probably would have waffled around and wound up trying to paint it all! 🤦‍♀️ Thanks for watching!

[@Susiachi]

Another gem of a painting. Love your range of neutrals, so sensitive and believable.

[@ronschlorff7089]

key word : "believable", that only comes from her methods; working from life and not a photo!!

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@Susiachi Thanks very much! 🙏🎨🙌

[@ChristopherRobinsonFaculty]

Thank you so much! Your videos feel like a great gift. As always, the colors are perfect. I don't know how you manage that. Indeed, sometimes the way the painting emerges appears miraculous. (I hope 2025 will be an amazing year for you, Jennifer.)

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@ChristopherRobinsonFaculty Thanks, Chris! I've been studying a lot of the work by contemporary Russian painters. Their landscapes look very similar to up here, so I've learned a lot from their colors. Happy New Year! Hope it's off to a good start!

[@GoGentlier]

Beautiful. When you added the quite subtle dancing deer steps suddenly the spatial of the ground appeared and solidified. Great!

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@GoGentlier See? Dancing deer make everything better. 😆

[@BarbieBud]

Beautiful warms and cools. Out there in the snow, wow.

[@ronschlorff7089]

the thing about being "out there", is you see things you could never ever possibly see in a photograph.

[@BarbieBud]

@ I’m out a lot but not in the snow and extreme cold. She’s brave

[@ronschlorff7089]

@ Yes, she is, but I always thought I was just plain stupid to be out there, freezing, until I saw the results in my winter work, and knew it could not have happened any other way for "believable" snow scenes. LOL ;D

[@BarbieBud]

@ I should try it, maybe.

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@BarbieBud Careful, you'll never go back to "winter" photos! : )

[@lisakunish936]

I love your composition and the variety of colors!! Lovely painting!

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@lisakunish936 Thanks very much, Lisa! 🎨🙌

[@DQ_ArtGroupie]

I like how you boldly announced when the painting arrived at the "ugly phase", and how you later announced when it was leaving that phase. It looked amazing at the end, and I marvel at how you got it there, mainly because of all the white, you know, like a polar bear eating a vanilla ice cream cone in a snowstorm. I would have found starting a challenge. Great job finding a center of interest and building on it. btw, I'm going to try to get you and @Kate_Bonnie to discover each other, since you both post wild, entertaining plein air adventures. Happy New Year!!

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@DQ_ArtGroupie That used to be one of my favorite drawings when I was little: to basically draw a tiny mushroom slice on a white piece of paper, and voila! A polar bear in a blizzard! 😆😆😆 The rocks were my mushroom this time.

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@DQ_ArtGroupie And happy New Year to you too! 🥳🎨

[@lastgameplay]

Thank you for your videos....

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@lastgameplay Thanks for watching! 🙌🎨

[@andyhornberger758]

Another beautiful painting. Glad you didn’t throw it off the cliff. 😊

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@andyhornberger758 It was touch and go for a while... 😆😆

[@maggiepleinair]

Is it because of the cold that you didn't use thinner for the scrub in? Thank YOU for sharing. You give me courage!

[@ronschlorff7089]

cold can be a problem for a basically vegetable oil product like oil paint, stiffening it; but a small amount of vodka can loosen it up, and don't drink it, it's not "anti-freeze", .....unless you are indoors later that is!! LOL :D

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@maggiepleinair It is indeed! I don't remember what regular oils are like, but water-mixables get really soupy of I use anything to thin them when it's below freezing. It doesn't dry at all, and it also doesn't soak into the canvas, so there's a layer of despair that dooms anything else I try to put on top. 😆 I'm also not a fan of other mediums like stand oil. Regular-oil people say Gamsol helps? What do you use?

[@maggiepleinair]

@@Jennifer_Sampson_Art Thank you - that's helpful. I use oils/liquin/gamsol--but in the cold everything gets so stiff. I think I'll just watch you! 😄

[@elisabethseeger5837]

Nice! Ive thrown a few off cliffs😆

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@elisabethseeger5837 It's always a temptation... 😆😆

[@kymcrowart7876]

Awesome

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@@kymcrowart7876 Thanks, Kym! 🎨🙌🙏

[@ronschlorff7089]

Good one Jennifer, makes me lonesome for Lake Tahoe, where I did a lot of snow scenes, plein air, years ago, when I was "tougher", now in AZ with no snow to paint here. I could travel north, of course, up higher than down here near Tucson. Yes, if you don't paint winter scenes in the actual snow you cannot call yourself a landscape painter, unless maybe you live in Bali, that is!! It is as one old artist says, about plein air painting, "the one thing that separates the men from the boys", and women from the girls too, I guess, as you have proved, on numerous occasions. LOL. Two little things to make you laugh: Schmid says, "use alcohol to loosen up the pigments in the cold, but for No Other reason, while painting snow scenes". Get it!! And Gruppe or Hibbard or some other old painter of snow nearly froze to death out there, in VT. I think, and he came flying back to his cabin, threw open the door, screaming out, "Whiskey, whiskey give me whiskey", to his dear wife, who had a nice wood fire going there too. :D Ah, the joys of winter plein air eh!! Cheers from warm and beautiful, too warm and too beautiful, today, southern AZ. :D

[@Jennifer_Sampson_Art]

@ronschlorff7089 That's right, the women and the girls! And I have a list of other women who can prove it too. 😆💪 I'm curious about the vodka idea. I know it works for other water-based media. I'll email Winsor and Newton and see what they have to say! I'm also a little jealous of your warm, sunny weather... lol!