Monadnock is like a giant mirror that reflects the weather and the time. Monadnock looks different every...
...day, every hour of the day, sometimes with variations of light by the minute or a matter of seconds. Seeing atmospheric changes against a landscape can be thrilling especially for artists and photographers.
Tens of thousands of paintings and photographs of Monadnock have been made by artists and photographers. Here is your chance to concentrate on your own idea of Monadnock. Choose your own vista.
Gather a group to draw and paint outdoors for 3 hours or more, in your own painting style, and/or, gather a group to take photos. It is fine if everyone gets similar photos, or makes similar paintings, because each photo or work of art is a matter of one's personal choice, personal style, location, steady hands or tripod, brushstrokes, color mixing, awareness, and the mountain is eternal - it will wait for another weather pattern for another color palette another day and each person can start over with a new vision.
...day, every hour of the day, sometimes with variations of light by the minute or a matter of seconds. Seeing atmospheric changes against a landscape can be thrilling especially for artists and photographers.
Tens of thousands of paintings and photographs of Monadnock have been made by artists and photographers. Here is your chance to concentrate on your own idea of Monadnock. Choose your own vista.
Gather a group to draw and paint outdoors for 3 hours or more, in your own painting style, and/or, gather a group to take photos. It is fine if everyone gets similar photos, or makes similar paintings, because each photo or work of art is a matter of one's personal choice, personal style, location, steady hands or tripod, brushstrokes, color mixing, awareness, and the mountain is eternal - it will wait for another weather pattern for another color palette another day and each person can start over with a new vision.
For inspiration, here are some examples from the Dublin Historical Society calendar, Monadnock, Paintings from the Dublin Side, 2010. Artists, clockwise from left: Richard S. Meryman, Alexander James, William Preston Phelps, Mary Knowleton, Beatrix Sagendorf, and Katherine Wolfe. Thanks go to the Historical Society for these images. More Monadnock views appear in the calendar, and many more on Monadnock Daily Photo blog.
For Your Monadnock, select the following:
- Drawing board or easel (that stands up on bare ground)
- Paper or canvas
- Pencils, pencil sharpener
- Water for brushes
- Paints (acrylics, watercolors)
- Brushes
- AND/OR cameras!
- Frame for looking at the scenery
- Water for drinking
- Casual clothes, smock, old shirt
- Warm coat, hat, gloves, boots, if needed
- Food, if you are painting outdoors more than 3 hours
Go to the location. Set up the easels or drawing boards and paper or canvas and loosely sketch in the profile of mountain and sky and major features of the landscape. Draw in details.
Mix colors. Begin with the sky and paint the view in the distance first. Adjust, add nuances.
For suggestions of locations in nearby towns contact the Camouflage Curriculum.
Optional: post Monadnocks on facebook page.
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