PINTAR RAPIDO 2015- It's Time to Register!

Hey, It's summer!! It's the best time of the year to paint in London!!!

ARE YOU GONNA BE THE 2015 Winner????

And that's why Pintar Rapido is one of the best painting events of the year!!

That's Me, painting my winning piece in 2013 SOLD

Over 300 artists (both amateurs and professionals) gather together at the Chelsea Town Hall to get their boards, papers and canvases stamped and ready to paint any place of their choice in London!

That's Peter Brown NEAC, one of the lead Judges in 2014, shaking hands with Ben Hope (The 2014 Winner )

Registration starts at approximately 9am on the day and by 9.30 am-10 am every artist would have been at their painting spot to paint for the day. Every artist needs to be back by 6pm and the work would be instantly hung for a selling exhibition the next day! You must have resitegistered and paid for your Artist Pass before or by the 6th July, 2015.

Ben Hope,  Looking West Along Queen's Gate Terrace 25x30cm. Oil on canvas
Winning Painting Pintar Rapido London 2014

Many artists look forward to this! I took part in 2013 and I won it! Many have sold their paintings at this event and it's also a great time to meet up with loads of other artists who love to paint outdoors in the summer!

That's Haidee-Jo painting at Duke of York Square in 2014

So what are you waiting for if  you love painting outdoors! you don't need to be an ardent plein air painter to take part, just get ready and enjoy the day!

 HAIDEE-JO SUMMERS, Duke of York square, 22 X 24, OIL ON CANVAS, SOLD

TO REGISTER before the deadline on the 6th of July please CLICK HERE

Rob Adams Painting his piece in 2014

ROB ADAMS,  SLOANE SQUARE, 12 X 16, OILS SOLD

David Pilgrim, Cadogan Pier, 12" x 16", Oils

How the Hall looks with mounted and hung paintings on the Sunday at the Chelsea Town Hall

DETAILS OF PINAR RAPIDO LONDON 2015

Pintar Rapido London is the UK's biggest outdoor painting festival, competition and exhibition. A weekend celebration of art and the London cityscape. It is open to professional and non-professional artists of all skill levels and it inspires hundreds of them to create a picture from start to finish in a day. The following day the public can view and buy these unique visions of London at the Pintar Rapido exhibition.

John Walsom, Embankment, Oil.

Saturday July 11; Painting Day. After choosing a location to paint , each artist has a day to create their artwork. They use their own materials and work in any style, medium or size they wish. 

Tom Hughes, Kings Road Chelsea, Oils SOLD

Sunday July 12; Public exhibition and sale at Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King's Road London SW3 5EE. Visitors can view more than 400 paintings and meet the artists, including the winner of the £1,000 Pintar Prize. 

Mark Harrison, Chelsea Reach, Oils SOLD

Runner up 2014 Cristobal Perez-Garcia King's Road oil on canvas, 73 x 146cm awarded £500 cash prize donated by Bective Leslie Marsh

 Pintar Prize. We have £3,000 worth of prizes being awarded this year, including the top award of £1,000 sponsored by sofa.com. This year we are pleased to have the award winning artist Richard Pikesley as our lead judge.

Valerie Pirlot, Battersea Bridge in the morning  11 x 14  oil on board

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Winning the First Prize at Pintar Rapido in London 2013

Adebanji painiting "The Summer Buzz at Kensington Church Street"

On Saturday we had a great Plein air Festival in London called Pintar Rapido. The Borough of Kensington and Chelsea hosted up to 400 painters who registered to take part in this one day competition. Roger Beckett, the founder of this event in London got the idea from Spain and did a brilliant job to put this altogether in London for the first time.

My Winning Painting! -photo by Roy Connelly

The rules were simple, choose a spot in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and paint it in a day! The Artists registered at 9.00am at the Chelsea Town Hall and got the painting surfaces stamped, then they all went to their favourite chosen spots around Chelsea to work on their pieces. We were all to come back by 8pm with the finished works ready for hanging. all the works were to be on display the next day at the Chelsea Town Hall, where all the paintings would be for sale and the winning painting would receive £1,000!

Prof Ken Howard (middle) announcing the winners and Roger Beckett (founder of Pintar Rapido in London) looks on. photo by Roy Connelly

I went to Kensington Church Street, and I painted it from Kensington High Street. I discovered this street while commuting on the 328 bus, once the bus got to this street, the trees looked great, they cast their shadows on the buildings and it really made a long lasting impression on me. I decided that I'll paint it as it was the place my heart really went out for!

This is the scene where I painted- Kensington Church Street

I started painting around 10am and finished around 4pm. It was hot, boiling but I enjoyed every bit of it! My wife and kids came around and Ruth did a short video of me speaking about the event.





I couldn't go for the Exhibition on Sunday because of my Church responsibilities, but I was  so pleased to have Prof Ken Howard call me to break the good news that I won! He said he thought it was a good painting! That really made my day!

For this painting, I used Winsor and Newton Artist Acrylics with all the mediums like slow dry medium, impasto heavy body medium and flow enhancer. I worked on a  Winsor and Newton 24" x 30" linen Canvas.

Here below are some stage shots at particular times of the day of how the painting developed.

STAGE 1

STAGE 1. 10:06am- I lay out all my colours, 15 colours in all. Titanium White, 3 yellows (cadmium lemon, cadmium pale and azo or deep yellow) , Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, a Sienna Red, 3 Blues(Cobalt, Cerulean and Ultramarine) and 3 greens (Hooker, Sap and Viridian).  I use three mediums-Slow dry, Impasto heavy body medium and Flow Enhancer. I also have a tear off disposable palette and  the main palette I used is from Daler Rowney, it has a cover to preserve the colours. I attach a little orange bucket for my water to rinse the brushes and a Cass Art bag for dirty rags.

STAGE 2

STAGE 2- 10.16am- Here I do my normal 'griding', dividing the ground into 16 squares and 4 diagonals. This helps me plan where things are going to be on the surface. It's almost like I have an imaginary square in front of me with these squares and diagonals. I measure the distances according to these squares.

STAGE 3

STAGE 3-11.30am- Here I paint very very quickly, plotting perspective lines, The sky and the initial underpainting for the buildings. Everything is carefully measured. My palette has a big patch of blue as you can see for the sky.

STAGE 4

STAGE 4. 12.03noon- I now begin to make impressions of every interesting shape under the tree. It's very hard to just focus on the shapes and not try to paint things! Once I get the right shapes they pop up well!

STAGE 5

STAGE 5 12.48noon- For the next 40 minutes I just determine to play with the trees! It was such a delight! I have always longed to paint these trees and ever since I read a book by Norman Battershill on Trees, I have fallen in love with painting trees. I painted the cool shady areas first, with mixtures of Green with Alizarin Crimson and Cobalt blue and for the light areas I added Yellow Ochre and the warm yellows.

STAGE 6

STAGE 6 13.43pm- I then make sure I focus on the roads and shadows around the roads. The roads look easy but they took a long time to sort out. A few cars and buses line up down the road and I'm lucky that each time the bus stops for the traffic to pass, it stops at the same place, so I was able to use so many buses for the same one in my painting.

STAGE 7

STAGE 7- 14.11pm- I still worked on the roads adding middle platforms and leveling the area for things to work out.  I also add details on the buildings along the road that vanishes under the trees.

STAGE 8

STAGE 8 16.13pm- Finally I do the detailing and make sure there are figures moving about, there were loads of people but I was beginning to get tired here, so I just added a few in strategic places to help the composition. I added a bit more flicker highlights to the trees and then I just left every other thing that might do- out, so I don't work it to death!

While on my way back to my studio on Lots Road, I met a group of Painters around Lots Road painting.

Some painters around my Studio on Lots Road.

 If you are interested in seeing how I use Acrylic to Paint, I have a DVD available with TOWN HOUSE FILMS, Click HERE for the details.

SPECIAL QUOTE
"I'm always constantly sketching, this is the secret to painting rapidly, keep a sketchbook and sketch everyday!!!"-Adebanji Alade