MY Go 2 Pochade box designs

This is an adaption of several pochade boxes already in production. I used magnets in the panel holder to hold the steel bars in the three slots. The slots are necessary to keep the attached panel straight.

A torque hinge is used to hold the palette/tray in place.

I used  a horizontal format here and upon reflection I could have added vertical slots for portrait panels.

The tripod mount is on the top section for stability to the painting surface.

Another method for creating the panel holder.

Three holes were drilled into the board and magnets were inserted into holes reinforced with a heavy duty epoxy glue.

A steel bar was taped to the back of a gator board. Gator board was used because it is light weight, water resistant and strong. 

Various materials can be taped to the front of the gator board, watercolor paper, canvas, panels, etc. Or, if using a panel, just tape the piece of metal to the back of that.

The gator board/panel is attached to the front of the panel holder with the magnets.

May 2019

Sunrise/Sunset

8 x 4 1/2

Gouache on Pastel paper

Mudpies

8 x 4 1/2

Gouache on Pastel paper

Seascape study after Mike Hernandez

8 1/2 x 5 1/2

Casein and Gouache on Pastel Paper

(190520)

Rock off Ogunquit

11 x 14

Acrylic & Gouache

Sketch book tripod mount

Optional tray for accessories.

Tray mounted to sketch book holder. Tripod mount attached.

View from below.

Sketch book holder and tray attached to tripod. 

Opened sketch book with watercolor pan and water brush on tray.

April 2019

Foggy morning at the Point

16 x 20

Watercolor

Santa Fe River crossing

9 x 12

Watercolor, Gouache & W/C Pencil

Pine Point Afternoon

9 x 12

Oil Pastels on paper

Started this on 4/06/19. It was too windy to finish so I went back the next morning to complete it. Observed a green tint and pink in the water and added those colors.

Hide & Seek
12 x 8
Acrylics on panel

Original photo taken by Donna McClure from her back yard.

March 2019

Untitled

9 1/2 x 5 1/2

Watercolor

Untitled
10 1/4 x 14
Watercolor

Jan 2019

Owls Head Home

5 1/2 x 7 1/2

Watercolor on bristol

Blue door - Santa Fe

Acrylics on board

What I learned from Barry McCann

There were a few things I learned as I watched the demo listed below. 

First, Barry mixes his own mixing white using titanium white acrylic paint and acrylic paint retarder in a 3:1 ratio. The mixing white is used to tone the colors on the palette. This does two things, one it extends the drying time of the paint and two it tones down the intensity of the paint (acrylics tend to dry darker). 

Barry adds the retarder to a mister filled with water. The paints on the palette are given a fine mist periodically so that they don't dry out too soon. The mist can also be applied to the painting to aid in blending the colors on the surface.

Barry uses a Palette Garage to store his paints between sessions. This can be obtained at Amazon for around $28. 

I found that I can store paint by using the Premier Paint Palette by Nicole, that I got from A. C. Moore for around $20. Other brands/styles similar to this can be found on Amazon starting at $10.

The Paint Palette is air tight. I added a moist paper towel and found that the paint stayed workable for several days. 

 The Paint Palette has a removable tray for easy cleaning and adds an extra mixing area.

I added some Golden Open extender to a mister. I use this to occasionally wet the paint on the palette during the painting session and as a final wetting when done for the day.

I used a combination of Golden Open and Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic paints on this painting. Both worked well with the mixing white. The Heavy Body stayed just as moist as the Open acrylic during this testing time.

Barry McCann Fine /arts

YouTube Demo by Barry McCann

Albert Handell study

Oil pastel study of oil painting by Albert Handell

7 x 10

Under painted with Creatacolor Aquastics, then used Faber-Castel Oil Pastels. Sennelier Oil Pastels were used to finish the lights and highlights. Created in 2016.

December 2018

2017 Plein Air

9 x 7

Oil

This was started last fall en plein air. Used oil pastels to add highlights and to bring up more colors.

Charles Street Morning

10 x 14

Watercolor

Through the trees

8 x 12

Oil on gessoed board

John Deere 2

8 x 10

Watercolor & Gouache

Sisters 2

4 x 6

Watercolor

Mixed media studies

3 x 5 each

Watercolor, watercolor pencil and gouache.

Mostly Don Demers references were used.

181201 Christmas Fair - South Portland

Gouache

Gouache

Goauche

Gouache

Acrylics

Colored Pencil

Goache

Acrylics/Goauche