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Painting on the Farm

My family and I took a vacation to Lancaster PA. I couldn't get over how beautiful the land and buildings in this area are! We stayed at a true working farm in Mt Joy owned by Sharon and Barry Kreider. The farm is quite old as we noticed a keystone on the original part of the barn that had the date 1860. It was very interesting to see the inner workings of a dairy farm and get to know the Kreider family. We were able to feed the cows, get fresh eggs from the chickens and relax on the farms' 140 acres. As we were only there for two days, I had a very limited time to paint. This is one of the windows on their natural stone farmhouse. I have been trying to move up a bit in size in my work so this painting was done at 12 x 18". When I visit friends or stay in a special place, I always like to leave something for my hosts. A painting is the perfect remembrance of times well spent. I hope the Kreiders' enjoy the painting.

Getting Ready for Plein Air Easton

I received the news that I was accepted to plein air Easton again this year. Last year, i did a lot of research to get ready.I thought it would be interesting to discuss how I prepare for the event. I will go into my supplies and setup, framing and painting approach so stay tuned!

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This was a plein air painting at Gifillian Farm near Pittsburgh.
It won an honorable mention at the Double Door Gallery Plein Air Exhibtion.

Paintings from Easton 2010

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Two Seats No Waiting

Cannonball House

Keyhole Barn

New/old paper

Just the other day, while loking through my supplies, I rediscovered an old block of watercolor paper I had purchased in gerrmany about 20 years ago called Hahnemuhle Torchon. I t has a distinctive texture and reacts a lot like standard hot press watercolor paper. I like to paint on surfaces that are not fully absorbent and allow the brush to leave interesting shapes on the paper. Whats so cool about this stuff is that it lets the color stay bright and fresh but doesn't need the amount of dry time as the typical hot press paper. it also has a much brighter white surface. Another of my favorites is Strathmore wet media paper which seems to react in a similar fashion.

The Hanemuhle paper is available at www.nycentralartsupply.com. be sure not to get the digital printing paper but rather the artists paper.

Cheers

Hello

Hi

My name is David Csont and I am an Artist. Over the past 20+ years I have been an architectural Illustrator. While doing thousands of renderings has been a great way to make a living, and I have enjoyed every minute of it, It has been in my mind to spend more time pursuing a purer, more personal form of painting.

I have always done plein air painting. My job has allowed me to travel all over the world and see some really amazing places and what I have found is that a photo can give you an image,but a painting or drawing gives you a true visual memory or record of what you seen and experienced.

This year I promised myself I would do more plein air painting. I also applied for the Plein Air Easton Festival and was selected so.. as Rocky got ready for the big fight with Apollo Creed, I am now in training for the big event in July! While I won't be downing raw eggs and pounding raw meat, I will be doing a lot of paintings to prepare, and thought I would post them and see what people think. Stay tuned!