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by Marc Dalessio

Working larger outdoors

I’ve been trying to work larger outdoors. With today’s modern conveniences, we should have less trouble moving our equipment around. I was always impressed with the photos of Sorolla painting on his massive canvases with large wooden structures to protect them from the wind.

My idea now is to have an easel made that I can attach to the side of my car. I already use the car all the time as a windbreak as it is so tall, now I just need a way to attach a canvas to the side…

Here is an image of the final painting:

In the Face of all Aridity. Oil on linen, 120 x 150 cm (47 x 59 in). 2008

In the Face of all Aridity. Oil on linen, 120 x 150 cm (47 x 59 in). 2008

by Marc Dalessio

Geotagging for landscape painters

I spend a lot of time driving around the Tuscan countryside every summer looking for great spots to paint.

An ongoing project of mine is to take a picture from every spot I find which I think is especially picturesque. The camera on my cellphone is set to automatically check the built-in gps system to see where I am in the world, and the phone is set to automatically upload my landscape photos to a Flickr set. Flickr can then parse the location data in the photo and place it on a map.

Another painter can then check my ‘landscape archive’ map on Flickr to see if any of the views interest them.

At the moment there are just a few practice shots up, but over the next couple months the map should fill up.

(The phone is a Nokia N82, if anyone was curious).