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Danny McShane
Jun 9, 20246 min read
Urban Sketching
Fill a sketchbook and discover your surroundings.
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Danny McShane
May 30, 20243 min read
Half Rigged Clipper
Painting a sailing Clipper from imagination on a Full Imperial sheet.
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Danny McShane
Apr 13, 20244 min read
Outside In? An Indoor Plein Air Demo.
Stonehaven Art Club invited me to give a talk and demo on plein air watercolour and the puzzle was always going to be how to illustrate...
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Danny McShane
Aug 22, 20237 min read
Outside or In: Why "Plein Air"?
Plein air painting might be an acquired taste, but then it becomes an addiction.
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Danny McShane
Jun 21, 20233 min read
Painting the Boathouse at Fyvie Loch.
Sometimes a plein air painting isn't quite what I wanted when I finish on site and I've no qualms about trying to improve it later. My...
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Danny McShane
Jun 21, 20231 min read
Being Watched
Spent a chilly hour at Balnagask, Aberdeen sketching from the Car Park... Looking over Balnagask Golf Course to the 200m tall legs of the...
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Danny McShane
Jun 16, 20232 min read
Painting Donmouth
I painted this plein air in a stiff Southerly breeze. Donmouth is where the River Don meets the sea (you'd never have guessed?) on the...
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Danny McShane
Jun 10, 20232 min read
Decisions, decisions...
I painted a view of Fittie, Aberdeen yesterday (half imperial, 22x15") and felt it needed something, so once I finished I thought I'd...
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Danny McShane
Jun 10, 20232 min read
"One Touch" Watercolour
The Skandi Kvitsøy entering Aberdeen. I find Imperial sized watercolour challenging and revisit it now and again to remind myself why I...
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Danny McShane
Jun 8, 20231 min read
Plein Air Hazards No 84b....
...Rotor Wash. Idyllic afternoon, 5 miles from home, 2 miles from the road, at a footbridge crossing the slowest flowing river in...
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Danny McShane
Jun 8, 20231 min read
Look.. a Squirrel....!
or "The distractions of plein air painting". I was planning to paint a quiet picture of the old Capstan at Skate's Nose jetty on the...
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