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Cold Spring
January 23, 2016
Another day spent painting outside in 25°F Tempature. I went out painting yesterday, spending my Friday afternoon lost in the wonder of painting snow. I found a great parking zone off a major road near to Fort Atkinson Wisconsin and set up my two 42″ tall warning cone warning drivers of the Plein Air painter at work. I got to work in creating this nice little winter farm snowscape. I was lost in the color and it seemed like the 4 hours painting had just slid by. I’m pleased with the end result.
Cold Spring, Oil pastel on fuchsia stained wooden panel, 16″x20″, January 22 2016 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Part of my Farmscape Series.
Gyan Samara, MFA
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Ready To Go Painting In Freezing Tempatures
January 22, 2016
Today I did this beautiful little painting in Helenville Wisconsin. It was about 24° outside and all I could handle was about 2.5 hours of painting before I had to pack it up and head to my Airbnb. 
Sunshine Road, Oil pastel on fuchsia stained wooden panel, 11″x14″, January 21 2016 in Helenville, Wisconsin.
I’m dressed for success !
The painting location off Sunshine Road.
Airbnb Farm Snowscape
January 8, 2016
Barn Snowscape, Oil pastel on fuchsia stained wooden panel, 16″x16″, January 7, 2016.
Helenville Wisconsin
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Farmscape Painting Christmas Day
January 6, 2016
I went out Christmas Day 2015 and did this nice little painting, 16″x16″. I still need to work on it some more from home.
Airbnb Plein Air Painting Trips
January 6, 2016
A few weeks ago on December 20th 2015, I stayed at a cozy loft in a Swiss chalet/ farm in the middle of Wisconsin for 2 days of plain air painting. My first painting was painted on a cold misty day of a silo and barn right down the road from where I was staying at the Airbnb.
Misty Day, 16″x16, oil pastel painting, December 20th, 2015
On my 2nd day, painted this landscape on the airbnb where I was staying. A 16″x20″ oil pastel painting of the farmscape country side. Below are 2 videos of my painting sessions in the bitter cold.
Untitled, In Progress, 16″x20″, oil pastel on panel
On December 27th, I returned for 2 days to paint the same barn but from a different view. A 16″x16″ oil pastel painting. Below are 2 videos of my painting sessions in the bitter cold.
Working from my mobile studio.
Road side warning cone!
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Airbnb: Chic Loft Surrounded by Nature
Looking out of the loft bed window on day two. The snow came down fairly quickly. Due to the snow conditions, I stayed inside all day and left the following day. Im returning this Thursday and Friday for 2 full days of snowscape painting and photographing the countryside. Ill have to change up my palette to more cool pastels, blues and whites. The change should be fun.
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Gyan Samara MFA
Happy New Year 2016
January 4, 2016
Here are nine recent paintings created in the fall and early winter of 2015. More great plein air winterscapes to come!
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Holiday Pop Up Gallery at the Chicago City Hall’s Treasurers Office
December 12, 2015
For the next two weeks I will have three paintings on display in the Chicago City Hall’s Treasure Office. This group exhibit of Chicago neighborhoods will run from December 14 through December 31. I’ve displayed three of my paintings created this summer from Andersonville and Boystown. All my paintings are for sale and the prices range from $1275-$1440.
Lavender Fields
December 1, 2015
On November 23 2015, I started this new farmscape, sunset painting up in Kingston Illinois. Kingston is about 65 miles west of Chicago, up Route 90. It is a pleasant drive once you get past all the new highway construction and the urban sprawl of Chicago’s suburbs. Kingston is made up of many plots of farms as far as the eye can see with spiracular views of openness all around you.
This is a in studio painting in comparison to some of my others where I either start in the studio and finish up on location or vice versa. I chose to work on a stained black mahogany ground surface. I started out just blocking in the colors and general composition of the painting. From there I gradually work my way up building upon layer of colors.
This mid-point seen below you and it has a good feel to it. The sky is washed out, as the sun sets below the hillside horizon. The lavender fields have hay scattered about and in the foreground the earth has been tilled, exposing the rich raw umbers and dioxazine purples of the earth.
I continued to build up layers of the paint reaching a point where I could no longer manipulate the color since the paint was caked on so thick.
I took my carving and texturizing tools, and methodically removed much of the paint leaving behind remnants of color. I removed the thick surface of the sky, aggressively scratching it out to the point where the deep mahogany black and hitns of the fuchsia below arose to the surface. I continued to carve into the painting till the earth was scorched black exposing the ground hues.
I liked the raw painting I saw before me, and desired a more refined feel of the lavender field seen in a previous stage of this painting. I blended the sky out using white, lemon yellow, cadmium yellow dark, and cadmium orange. I loosely worked on the hillside, but mainly focused on the lavender fields in the foreground. My final touches were to get the cropped corn stalk bases painted in the fuchsia and yellowish/ orange rows.
In future paintings, I want to explore this bleached out sky with the hits of the black coming through. I have some great long and narrow surfaces to work on, and a few great bleached out sunsets that I can choose from. To see more of my progress, continue to follow my blog. To see more regular postings you can follow me on my Instagram page. Prints are available of some of my paintings as well as the originals.
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Gyan Samara, MFA
Plein Air on Brainard Road
November 30, 2015
Today I drove out to Kingston Illinois again with the intention of working on another painting but do to the rain I ended up photographing farmscape scenery for other future paintings. As I drove down Brainard Road,
a gravel road. I came across a spot that I really liked. Since the rain had stopped I decided to paint the scene which you see before you.
The weather was very cold; approximately 35° to 40° outside, but I came prepared with my muck boots and multiple layers of clothing, including my neon hoodie to warn other drivers that I was out painting alongside the road. I even put out one of my road side florescence poles to warn drivers of my presence.
This is a small 12″ x 9″ oil pastel painted on an unfinished wooden panel stained with a black mahogany color as a ground. I started with some basic colors to build up the gray sky and land. Once I have the sky in place I worked on the landscape adding and removing paint for the tools that I had before me. The small painting took approximately three hours to paint and in that time I believe I was able to achieve my goal.
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Brainard Road, Kingston Illinois 12″x9″, oil pastel on panel. November 30, 2015.
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Gyan Samara MFA
Artist Statement
November 30, 2015
As a fauvist-realist, my work reflects the way I see color and movement in life. By executing the work on-site, the elements of the natural world allow me to fully appreciate the raw feel of these urban and rural settings. I capture the subtle variances of colors viewed in our natural surroundings, and express them via gesture and line born from natural tremors in my hands. I embrace these variances, and take advantage of them. Thus, creating the energetic, rich, and vivid lines I seek when applying color, or while carving out the paint. I welcome this natural expression of textured movement, using organic lines to blend colors in my paintings.
I work on unfinished pine surfaces, stained in a variety of colors from deep mahogany to intense fuchsias. As I add and remove color, the surface is reflected in the finished piece, creating a somber, yet energetic, feel. My paintings are prepared fairly aggressively, as I pound layers of similar colors atop each other. Then, I gradually move onto more subtle color effects, gently tapping and blending the pigments with my fingers. The final steps of my process are achieved through adding and removing oil pastel, fusing these different techniques. Ultimately, this develops a refined expression, the finished piece.
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