tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45481003314899360122024-02-18T22:27:01.902-06:00Starglow Studio • Lori Lee Bowles SampsonLori Lee Bowles Sampson • Farm Raised Nature Artist • Art & Paintings for country, cottage, and farmhouse decor with articles about nature, flowers, and garden lovers.Lori Lee Sampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428415245761437163noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548100331489936012.post-75386493323216675592020-06-13T16:35:00.012-05:002020-06-28T12:44:54.904-05:00Photo Tip - Tweaking Might Improve Your Image 100%<div><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://starglowstudio.faso.com/blog" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Take better photos - demonstrating my photo tip for nature photography." border="0" data-original-height="1275" data-original-width="1440" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggBYs4zmQDOD7JYdws25RF68CzZG358Z670KlU-nXbAUUlxgOJvEDAogWFwQkAW70P7euV0Byco991zSLc-MxzblIKvLhyZD-1TqHHzaQDqnJpbOOlBebeEqM7mmQLOtaaTwrp0JCqlDTV/w640-h566/Starglow_Studio_Photo_Tip.jpg" title="Photo Examples of Tip: Tweak before you snap!" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><font size="4">PHOTO TIP: Tweak Before You Snap!</font></span></h1></span><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="My artist's journal of nature sketches and studies." border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmR27cr8fUIG0ozeNwgImGzBkqxn3tLkiFLj_IkGYKT40yWw03l-TsjLH-CTB0d4Gi27F2l6NqXIvTzs4VG28HKp3Kd3c9vW1f0-SwrHCDL1jIg4qOA6umLs-QdEzDVF6Th_MuC5eEM0Qj/w200-h200/artist-journal-watercolor-clematis.jpg" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;" title="My Artist's Nature Journal of a Clematis bloom. I love studying the structure of flowers and adding the color swatches to explain what I'm seeing." width="200" /></div><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><font size="4" style="line-height: 1.5;"><br />This photo tip can make or break an image. An otherwise 'Wow' shot can be ruined by the intrusion of unwanted bits of this and that.</font></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Do some house cleaning around your subject. Remove loose dead leaves, sticks, and other things that you don't want in the picture. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><font style="line-height: 1.5;"><div style="font-size: medium; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: large;">Then take a hard look at the arrangement of the blossoms, leaves, and background. </span>Are they where you want them? Are there parts of the plants in the wrong place? Is the background sufficiently clean and tidy?</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: right; float: right; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><font face="georgia"><i><b style="font-size: large;">In the photos above of my </b><font size="4"><b>Clematis flowers,</b></font><b style="font-size: large;"> you can see before and after the tweak.</b></i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></font>I rearranged the leaf that was hiding that beautiful bloom by gently moving it behind and twisting it slightly to create tension to hold it in place while I took the shot.</div></div><div style="font-size: medium; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><br style="font-size: medium;" /></div></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://starglowstudio.faso.com/workszoom/3645593#/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Clematis vine watercolor painting by me, Lori Lee Bowles Sampson, Starglow Studio." border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-08xt30uoJClA6k6BWIXFCCl0QCwdg5YCTEM8wfmQ_LfQXcAFrM3czkZ0OafGCXoe2letNBiEtfhxBn4JDHygFJyAPjtZWI4AoZFie5Yx4iOIN1TOMPKdyfY6SmAPyRxhYZwSpa4Ir83r/w200-h200/clematis-flower-watercolor-painting.jpg" title="Purple Clematis watercolor painting I did while sitting on my patio." width="200" /></a></div>I prefer not to remove, break, or otherwise damage a plant, but I do often try to coax leaves and flowers into a position that’s best for my shot.</span><font size="4" style="line-height: 1.5;"> </font><span style="font-size: large;">Using pipe cleaners or other props can also help with this, but always remove them when you're done and make sure they don’t show in your p</span><span style="font-size: large;">icture.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Play with this tip and let me know if it helped you take better pictures!</b></i></span></div></font></div><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><img alt="4 different Clematis vines blooming on my patio." border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV6XaQnNV8f3xdD5wYn8A3bzu9sjKz9U-1ut2VagErJPynanA28_xtGzDno1B5Yky4CXoEGZaU2_qdpwau_6gqq0QWqY56g79qaCwP6bkXKEZHZdnmb79UgsUp1forfG-8VFGo95C1AC-J/w640-h640/clematis_vines_blooming.jpg" title="4 different Clematis vines blooming on my patio." width="640" /><br /><br /><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><font size="4">I have 4 kinds of Clematis on my patio (one is not blooming yet). </font><span style="font-size: large;">Last year they didn’t do very well, but this year they’re doing great! </span><span style="font-size: large;">If you have them, I hope they're doing well for you too!</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="http://starglowstudio.faso.com/workszoom/3645598/clematis-vines#/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Unfinished watercolor painting by Lori Lee" border="0" data-original-height="1695" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwkY5xjHsuJPxZxAntnmLEjQN-gwuHzc6nziPNgsgKd6Nm6oMZmHDNgXWtWaDdSjO_fqr_sdjjribgsYyGgWSns43_wApli80EbsTlhzM-UrGvip5FWAjFcKbX9ExENR11kPn2Qm5prF3/w378-h640/clematis-vine-painting-in-progress.jpg" title="Work in progress watercolor painting I did outdoors (en plein air) on my patio." width="378" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4"><br /></font></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4"><span></span>Love </font></b><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4">flowers? </font></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4">Visit my <a href="http://starglowstudio.faso.com/works" style="line-height: 1.5;">Painting Gallery</a> </font></b><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4">for </font></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4">floral art and other nature subjects. </font></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><i><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4"><br /></font></span></i></div><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><i><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4">And visit my Instagram </font></span></i></div><div style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"><i><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4">@StarglowStudioPhotos </font></span><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4">for more of my photography.</font></span></i></div></font></span></div>Lori Lee Sampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428415245761437163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548100331489936012.post-71041379254695480862019-10-04T15:59:00.009-05:002020-06-28T12:45:54.134-05:00Inktober 2019 Ink DrawingsThis is the first time I’ve participated! 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<br />Lori Lee Sampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428415245761437163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548100331489936012.post-18693716558384998762019-07-12T09:16:00.006-05:002020-06-28T12:47:49.593-05:00Day 6 • World Watercolor Month • Daily Painting<div style="text-align: center;">
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Lori Lee Sampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428415245761437163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548100331489936012.post-46061878730932458002019-07-06T19:31:00.010-05:002020-06-28T12:48:31.234-05:00Day 5 • World Watercolor Month • Daily Painting<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://starglowstudio.faso.com/works"><img border="0" data-original-height="1599" data-original-width="1600" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM6Sdjrr4owvJ-M-cqmoaUe6Zuwk7dIRPi6E2AKsCz6gMtmMwuX4eTz2GAda2_FTBPLVAdb9f01hcMjOMzKFngJQKtksJsF4ul0RwdjH_ZZlSytsNWpLuCTqYEHtQgc6HXi6zQZhyuu07q/s320/IMG_2345.jpg" width="320" /></a> <img border="0" data-original-height="1599" data-original-width="1600" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9otE143v-uK78onTZuscpzxnOC4gTPOIh5Y1pVo3gavS6DgeSR6BYjMgqZUjGF1PXG9BIsz5IQZ81fhXbblMw9P7o4osGiu2j9y_rl6VdnWA89jM6KqHESfoDX63qzSoIwCTnAXPLV5jw/s320/IMG_2319.PNG" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="1599" data-original-width="1600" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP78iVazrFnNuIpj636SBZZYM9iN_SjnZ5Y_U5h3eJzo2y-MXqLoM65oBzOpdOuVRczHlGRjZNbtuMU4dt7zoYIN47fY_TqC-11emqeExgPtlsJwVQeAqFvqsQBE3wH8_ueMe3vW_xBiWn/s320/IMG_2321.jpg" width="320" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">Would you believe I was painting fireworks and ended up with a bouquet? </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4">Yup, art happens that way sometimes.</font></div>
Lori Lee Sampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428415245761437163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548100331489936012.post-86808943540355592862019-07-05T20:26:00.004-05:002020-06-28T12:50:17.678-05:00July - World Watercolor Month Daily Paintings<h2>
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<span id="goog_1571529044"></span><span id="goog_1571529045"></span><br />Lori Lee Sampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428415245761437163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548100331489936012.post-52860936529104426212019-06-11T11:56:00.011-05:002020-06-28T12:50:44.592-05:00En Plein Air Miniature 4x4 Acrylic Paintings<div style="text-align: center;"><i>A few of my plein air paintings from 2019. I was experimenting with acrylic on gessoed panels. The last couple of paintings I switched to 'open acrylics' to give myself more working time than regular acrylics. But even that proved challenging on a windy, dry day outside. Inside the atrium there was usually plenty of humidity which made the process easier.</i></div>
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I'm loving painting with <a href="https://www.goldenpaints.com/products/colors/open" target="_blank">Golden's Open Acrylics</a> on 4 inch x 4 inch <a href="https://ampersandart.com/aquabord.php" target="_blank">Aquabord</a> panels<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">@ <a href="https://peoriaparks.org/facility/luthy/" target="_blank">Luthy </a></span></b></span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://peoriaparks.org/facility/luthy/" target="_blank">Botanical </a></span></b></span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://peoriaparks.org/facility/luthy/" target="_blank">Garden</a></span></b> </span></i></div>
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<b style="color: #212529; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">From <a href="https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-subjects/plein-air/plein-air-art/" target="_blank">Arists Network</a></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Plein air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing in the landscape. The practice goes back for centuries but was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists. Their desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, coupled with the creation of transportable paint tubes and the box easel—the precursor to the plein air easels of today—allowed artists the freedom to paint “en plein air,” which is the French expression for “in the open air.”....</span></i></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><b>En plein air</b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (</span><small style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.9px; text-align: start;">French pronunciation: </small><span class="IPA" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none !important;" title="Help:IPA/French">[ɑ̃ plɛn ɛːʁ]</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="French language">French</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> for outdoors, or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><i>plein air </i>painting</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">) is the act of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Painting">painting</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">predetermined look....</span></div>
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</style>Lori Lee Sampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428415245761437163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548100331489936012.post-16496862537048956182019-03-08T20:36:00.008-06:002020-06-28T12:56:36.961-05:00Painting Acrylic En Plein Air at the Botanical GardenLong winters can really leave my creative spirit cold. I thaw it out with trips to my local <a href="https://peoriaparks.org/facility/luthy/" target="_blank"><b>botanical garden</b></a> to paint <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_plein_air" target="_blank"><b>en plein air</b></a> with acrylic or watercolor. So many gorgeous picture opportunities too. Great to have on hand for future paintings when I can't get there in person.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">I'm really enjoying using my new <a href="https://starglowstudio.blogspot.com/2019/02/mini-diy-pochade-box-for-plein-air.html" target="_blank"><b>pochade box</b></a> I made recently</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love painting in plein Air but fighting the cold and wind in winter is just too much. I often head over to my local botanical garden to soak up the warmth and humidity while I paint in either watercolor or acrylic. Gives me a much needed break from both the elements and my studio.</span></span><br />
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