Today I showed my students my rather dusty pochade box. It seems to have been in storage for a couple of years and perhaps it is time for it to see daylight again. This box is a clever little item, with space for three small (around 6 x 8 inch) boards, paints and brushes etc, and it reminded me that I should do some outdoor painting again in oils. It seems that pochade studies are having a renaissance at the moment and there are several available from manufacturers online.
I am tempted to get a new one, maybe a bit larger, but then it wouldn't really be a 'pochade' box at all. If you don't know what pochade means then look it up! I want to try a limited palette and do some quick landscape studies so I'll post any results in the fullness of time.
A cold, windy day but at least there was some bright weather and it was useful to see the rapidly changing light on the landscape around Aberystwyth - the colours were 'greyed' out and not really bright apart from sunlight directly on the near fields. I wonder how closely we actually do observe when we see...
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Brilliant, would love to see a pochade box with dust on! send into the gallery if you have.
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