I was going to use this idea for my Daily painting project, Dan Young, Daily next year but I realised the enormity of the proposal while painting in North wales a couple of weeks ago. My plan was to make a landscape drawing/painting everyday for a year. A worthy goal, but while my dedication to my art is strong (639 and counting daily paintings!) I still have to keep a full time job and maintain human relationships.
So, I thought, 'Why not paint a landscape a month?' (especially as I have already done the first painting while on holiday). I hope you will follow my efforts as I explore another traditional genre of painting for a year. You can view the paintings here or follow me through twitter or my facebook page or even youtube, there may be footage of me actually painting outside in the real world. The French would call it 'en plein air', I call it 'lugging your painting stuff around until you find a good spot ' but it's all good fun.
Aided by the invention of the tube of paint artists in the late 19th century were freed from their studios and their gangs of assistants mixing up paint to go out in the natural world with only their canvas, easels, tubes of paint, brushes, turpentine, rags, palettes, (along with probably some bread and wine) and made some of the freshest and vibrant paintings in history. I don't expect to rival Monsieur's Renoir and Monet but I am interested in seeing how I do it. I am also excited by mobile blogging, being a similar invention to the tube of paint (if a little more complicated) it means I can tell, and show, the world (or those of you that care!) what I have painted from the location I just painted it in. I haven't set any rules or constraints yet I want the project to grow as it goes along so I am going to make them up, if there are to be any, along the way.
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