Comments on: En Plein Air At The Old Creamery, Salt Spring Island https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/ Info, opinion, and training on how to pastel with artist Gail Sibley BFA, MA Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:56:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-38092 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 05:52:28 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-38092 In reply to Danielle Foreman Acken.

That’s so cool that you found this!! I will have to check with them and see if they can find their work!

]]> By: Danielle Foreman Acken https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-38055 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:42:41 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-38055 Hello! We bought this house in 2016! I would love to see what your mum and dad created as well!

Danielle Acken
The Old Creamery
Salt Spring Island, BC

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-942 Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:55:39 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-942 In reply to Kerry.

Glad to help Kerry!
And thanks for your good wishes for the season. The same back to you 😀

]]> By: Kerry https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-941 Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:00:20 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-941 In reply to Gail Sibley.

Thanks for the extra tips Gail, and it would be great if you could do the images side by side.

Have a lovely Christmas and all the best for New Year.

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-940 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:08:02 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-940 In reply to Joanne.

I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Yes, loved Dad’s total attention on what he’s doing. And you Mum, pondering your next step! It was a grand day as they all are 🙂

]]> By: Joanne https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-939 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:04:51 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-939 ]]> Aren’t we so very lucky to go out plein air painting with you!!!!!
It was a most interesting blog going through your steps to make adjustments to lead your eye into and through your painting. All the things we should be doing after finishing or what we think is a finished painting. Thank you for including us. Loved your dad so deeply engrossed in his work! It was a lovely fun day 😊

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-938 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:25:44 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-938 In reply to Kerry.

Kerry that’s wonderful news!! There’s no better reward than for someone to take the info and apply it to what they are working on. Remember too the trick of looking at your piece in a mirror and upside down and from a distant point (eg down a hallway). All these things help!

Regarding the idea of putting the images together, perhaps I can do that. I’ll try to remember to do that in the future.

And I’m happy you like the way the painting looks and the subject matter 🙂

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-937 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:22:00 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-937 In reply to Sandi Graham.

Dear Sandi, I’m so glad you enjoyed the blog and found some usefulness from it.

And I am SUPER delighted that you are still enjoying Pastel Painting En Plein Air. I am hoping others will take advantage of my Christmas deal 🙂
Happy holidays to you too!!

]]> By: Kerry https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-935 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:35:05 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-935 Thank you Gail for posting your multiple images that show the process of completing the painting. It was very useful to me as I am in the process of doing a painting that just wasn’t working. Over the past 24 hours, since you posted, I have come back several times to look through the images and to analyse the different steps, thinking of the image I am doing and examining your photos in detail (I wish that there was a way of examining them in a block from left to right rather than scrolling up and down). It has given me a clearer understanding of where I am going wrong. You have been very helpful.

Love the brightness of the image and the subject matter as well. 🙂

]]> By: Sandi Graham https://www.howtopastel.com/2015/12/en-plein-air-at-the-old-creamery/#comment-934 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 12:59:55 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=3881#comment-934 Gail, another great painting lesson. I always enjoy your sharing the thought process that happens with painting. This particular lesson is another to save and read again. I’ll refer to this when I paint as a little checklist reminder.
I’m so enjoying Pastel Painting En Plein Air and replay certain areas often. There is always something new to learn as it is full of information.
Happy Holidays
S

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