Dorothy (Stott) Clark
  • Veterans Memorial Park Jewett City Ct
  • Veterans Memorial Park (summer)
  • The Meeting House in Voluntown Connecticut
  • About the Artist
  • Truck Painting Supplies
  • WWII Army Tank in Plainfield Ct
  • Beach Pond Lake Voluntown Ct
  • Pachaug Pond boat launch Griswold Ct
  • Geer Tree Farm Griswold Ct
  • Kendall Road Lisbon Ct
  • Ducks at the Norwich Marina
  • Patrilo's Garage in Voluntown, Ct
  • Norwich Tire Service Inc.
  • The Silversmith's Shop of Joseph Carpenter
  • Norwich Town School House built in 1785
  • The Azariah Lathrop House
  • Paintings in the Studio
  • Sunflowers from Buttonwood Farm
  • The Potty Books from my Illustration Career
  • Children's Art
  • The Wilson's Home
  • Mrs. Stott's Hydrangeas
  • Norwich Harbor
  • The end/beginning of Route 49
  • Slater Library and Chucky's Mobile
  • Pumpkins, Pomegranate, Apple & Cinnamon
  • Blog
  • Eggplant with Peppers
  • Synagogue in Lisbon, Connecticut
  • Brown Betty, Ginger, Cinnamon and Pear
  • Across from St. Mary’s Cemetery on Old Jewett City Road in Lisbon
  • Billy’s Addiction
  • Blue Betty & Mr. Kipling
  • Pleasant View Studio
  • CONTACT INFORMATION
  • Weekapaug Beach, Westerly RI
  • Two White Pumpkins (studio painting)
  • Portrait of a White Pumpkin
  • Green Falls, Voluntown Connecticut
  • Anshei Israel Synagogue, Lisbon Connecticut
  • Billy’s View @ Pleasant View
  • The Tree at St. John’s in Plainfield Connecticut
  • The Barn @ Pleasant View
  • Knights of Columbus Hall
  • The Gathering @ The Baptist Church
  • Entrance to the Old Aspinook Mill
  • The Jewett City Cemetery
  • My Parking Spot @ Flex Gym
  • Clayville Pond
  • The Old Silo
  • Old House across from The Better Value Market
  • St Mary’s Church
  • My Dentist’s Office
  • Hopeville Pond (1)
  • Lilies & Pomegranate
  • Summer of 2019 Still Life Studio Paintings
  • The beginning of the back wood

Plein Air Painter
Dorothy (Stott) Clark
www.griswoldart.org


The Barn @ Pleasant View
Pleasant View
​Griswold Connecticut

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How I did it:
March like last year started with a vengeance. Lots of snow with single digit temperatures. Billy was out early with the snow blower. I was out early with my paintbox. Sitting in the truck, I did my 15 minutes a day sketch with my number 2B pencil. Taking lots of notes for colors and sunlight. Second truck sitting, I meticulously drew on my watercolor paper and refined this drawing sipping tea in my studio. I looked out the kitchen frequently at the barn. Third, all bundled up for 7 degrees, I did the painting of the sky and background. Notice I used touches of masking fluid for the electric wire and touches of snow on the ground that were hit with sunshine in the distance behind the barn. So my water doesn’t freeze, I add a touch of vodka to my water. You can see this sitting above! Fourth sitting, I paint the barn and begin using my #4 Rigger Brush to paint the trees. Fifth sitting, I refine all this. Sixth sitting, I paint the snow. Then inside for hot tea!

My Supplies:

Daddy’s Old Truck

Alizarin Crimson, Windsor Blue, Yellow Ochre. (All Windsor & Newton Watercolor Paints)
Remember if you learn to mix, you create beautiful colors that are all you with the least amazing of paints. I always tell my students to keep it simple and traditional.

My small Wiskey Painter’s Palette with a small bottle of spirits so my water doesn’t freeze.

My Rafael series 6404 #8 & #13 brushes
My Isabey#4 Rigger Brush

Paper: TwinRocker Cold Press. Because most watercolor companies get bought out and are continually changing (not for our betterment) the way they make paper, I now always remove all sizing on my papers with hot water and a kitchen sponge before I go into the truck to paint. This means the paint can seep into the paper for beautiful clean unpuddled color like my ancestor Plein Air Painters.

Painter’s Note for her students: Truly none of this can be achieved if you don’t draw for fifteen minutes each day in your sketchbook with your #2B pencil. Remember to honor the Plein Air Painters who were before us and share all you know to keep our traditions alive in this world of computer s as the artists. ​

info@griswoldart.org

  • Veterans Memorial Park Jewett City Ct
  • Veterans Memorial Park (summer)
  • The Meeting House in Voluntown Connecticut
  • About the Artist
  • Truck Painting Supplies
  • WWII Army Tank in Plainfield Ct
  • Beach Pond Lake Voluntown Ct
  • Pachaug Pond boat launch Griswold Ct
  • Geer Tree Farm Griswold Ct
  • Kendall Road Lisbon Ct
  • Ducks at the Norwich Marina
  • Patrilo's Garage in Voluntown, Ct
  • Norwich Tire Service Inc.
  • The Silversmith's Shop of Joseph Carpenter
  • Norwich Town School House built in 1785
  • The Azariah Lathrop House
  • Paintings in the Studio
  • Sunflowers from Buttonwood Farm
  • The Potty Books from my Illustration Career
  • Children's Art
  • The Wilson's Home
  • Mrs. Stott's Hydrangeas
  • Norwich Harbor
  • The end/beginning of Route 49
  • Slater Library and Chucky's Mobile
  • Pumpkins, Pomegranate, Apple & Cinnamon
  • Blog
  • Eggplant with Peppers
  • Synagogue in Lisbon, Connecticut
  • Brown Betty, Ginger, Cinnamon and Pear
  • Across from St. Mary’s Cemetery on Old Jewett City Road in Lisbon
  • Billy’s Addiction
  • Blue Betty & Mr. Kipling
  • Pleasant View Studio
  • CONTACT INFORMATION
  • Weekapaug Beach, Westerly RI
  • Two White Pumpkins (studio painting)
  • Portrait of a White Pumpkin
  • Green Falls, Voluntown Connecticut
  • Anshei Israel Synagogue, Lisbon Connecticut
  • Billy’s View @ Pleasant View
  • The Tree at St. John’s in Plainfield Connecticut
  • The Barn @ Pleasant View
  • Knights of Columbus Hall
  • The Gathering @ The Baptist Church
  • Entrance to the Old Aspinook Mill
  • The Jewett City Cemetery
  • My Parking Spot @ Flex Gym
  • Clayville Pond
  • The Old Silo
  • Old House across from The Better Value Market
  • St Mary’s Church
  • My Dentist’s Office
  • Hopeville Pond (1)
  • Lilies & Pomegranate
  • Summer of 2019 Still Life Studio Paintings
  • The beginning of the back wood