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| Plein Air on the Rim | ||
Williamson Tapia Large-scale DPA work requires repeated visits to an oftentimes remote site, that must be carefully approached with a considerable payload, and enough determination to combine the hard work of “set-up” with a controlled brush & palette study, and still enough energy remaining to safely pack everything out. For all the difficulty involved, plein air paintings seem to retain an element of atmospheric realism, rarely found in studio-produced landscapes. While the definitions of plein air can vary somewhat from artist to artist, all will generally agree that some form of direct study is absolutely essential to properly demonstrate the best aspects (or hallmarks) of plein air composition. To Will Tapia, and others like him, it is the uncompromised event of the artist’s working on location, “body and soul,” that imparts such an extraordinary quality to the type of painting that is called Plein Air. | | |
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| Artist's Website: www.williamsontapia.com | ||