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Image:
7.50" x 10.00"
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2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.00" x 15.50"
#284 Plein Air Painter #284 Framed Print
by William Lum
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#284 Plein Air Painter #284 framed print by William Lum. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
I painted a painting of a painter painting. On a visit to the High Hand Nursery in Loomis I saw several plein air painters. The term en plein air... more
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Artist's Description
I painted a painting of a painter painting. On a visit to the High Hand Nursery in Loomis I saw several plein air painters. The term en plein air is simply French for “in the open air,” meaning plein air painting is just creating art outdoors. The French coined the phrase for it back in the 1800’s when painting outdoors really took off and its popularity skyrocketed. Though highly criticized and even ridiculed at first, Impressionism and its spin-offs greatly aided the popularity of plein air painting, as they believed the best and only way to paint this movement of light over nature was to be right there in front of it whilst painting.
This painting is different than my usual approach because I wanted to try something looser, lighter, and faster. I used an technical ink pen with an archival sepia colored ink and did a rapid sketch. Then I filled in the colors and shading with watercolor paint.
About William Lum
My search to find my biological family was the genesis of my journey into the world of art. When I finally found my birth family, at the age of 40, I was plunged into a new and very different family. On one occasion while talking with the father I had never known, I discovered that my great uncle was the renowned watercolorist Dong Kingman. Fatefully discovering a cheap watercolor paint set, and intrigued by my relationship with Kingman, I wondered if I had inherited any of his talent. This lingering question spurred me into trying to paint. My first challenge was deciding what subjects I would paint. As a fan of Van Gogh, and knowing that he painted images from his day to day life: houses, fields, people working, I decided to do the...
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Nick Vogt
Glancing through your photos this morning, Bill. This photo caught my eye... Sort of looks like me :)
William Lum replied:
It took a few years for you to notice... Yes, it is you. It was a Placer Arts League outing.