Danny McShaneJun 96 min readUrban SketchingRated 5 out of 5 stars.(1)Fill a sketchbook and discover your surroundings.
Danny McShaneMay 303 min readHalf Rigged ClipperRated 5 out of 5 stars.(1)Painting a sailing Clipper from imagination on a Full Imperial sheet.
Danny McShaneApr 134 min readOutside 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...
Danny McShaneAug 22, 20237 min readOutside or In: Why "Plein Air"?Rated 3.667 out of 5 stars.(3)Plein air painting might be an acquired taste, but then it becomes an addiction.
Danny McShaneJun 21, 20233 min readPainting the Boathouse at Fyvie Loch.Rated 5 out of 5 stars.(1)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...
Danny McShaneJun 21, 20231 min readBeing WatchedSpent a chilly hour at Balnagask, Aberdeen sketching from the Car Park... Looking over Balnagask Golf Course to the 200m tall legs of the...
Danny McShaneJun 16, 20232 min readPainting DonmouthI 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...
Danny McShaneJun 10, 20232 min readDecisions, 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...
Danny McShaneJun 10, 20232 min read"One Touch" WatercolourRated 5 out of 5 stars.(1)The Skandi Kvitsøy entering Aberdeen. I find Imperial sized watercolour challenging and revisit it now and again to remind myself why I...
Danny McShaneJun 8, 20231 min readPlein 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...
Danny McShaneJun 8, 20231 min readLook.. 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...