Counting Sheep, Painting Clouds: The New Plein Air - Paperback

by Phil Dynan (Illustrator), Phil Dynan (Author)

An exploration of "plein Air" art by the artist Phil Dynan. Over 50 pages of full-colour paintings that demonstrate the artist's work. The term "new plein air" refers to using creative license to paint "in the open" and use of an impressionistic and expressive style to convey the "true sense" of a place, building, person, or landscape through the use of interpretive style, colour and strokes. In other words, the style of the "New Plein Air" involves simplification, abstraction and symbolism.

Author Biography

Author Phil Dynan is a working artist and author. He has produced a series of books and paintings that feature the two black cats, Mr. Moto and Kozo, over his 50-year career. Additionally his serigraphy has been featured in books and magazines, i.e, The Best of Screen Printing Design (Rockport). His images have been published world-wide by a dozen different publishers, as cards, fine art prints and posters. He is currently working on two series of large paintings, one entitled "Electronica" and one entitled "Barnyard Animals". He often works collaboratively with his partner, Anastasia Nelson.