To make a studio oil-on-canvas painting from the "Lodi Lane" gouache seen in the "Plein Air" section and movie. I added photo image information to make a more complete study.
Traditionally, 'pochade' is a free, bold, rapid sketch; 'esquisse', a slightly more precise sketch than the pochade; 'etude', a highly detailed, extremely precise study of specific details.
As translated to my process, the plein air gouache is the Pochade. My Etudes are video stills taken on location. I made a collage of these Etudes to form a photo Esquisse. I then combined the photo Esquisse with a scan of the gouache Pochade to make a second Esquisse, which is the primary source for painting the Fini.
Pochade (Plein Air Gouache)
Photo Esquisse made from Photo Etudes
Final Esquisse made from Photo Esquisse and Pochade
Finished Oil PaintingIn past centuries, of course, painters did not have digital photography, scanners and printers, but they had camera obscuras and gridded viewing ports like the one the daughtsman used in Peter Greenaway's movie, "The Daughtsman's Contract". Cameras, lenses, viewports of all types have always been painter's tools. As the son of a photographer, I was raised with a keen interest in all methods of imaging. Any early painter who time-travels to our day would, like me, be photographing, scanning, Photoshopping and printing. The good ones have the taste and imagination to not restrict their art to slavish copying of photos, studies or views.
