Welcome to My Crazy Plein Air Adventures blog.
Beauty is where you find it. And sometimesit is found by climbingover a few fences to get to unusual subject.
That’s part of what makes outdoor painting (plein air) so interesting to me. There are always new and interesting thingsto be discovered and paint.
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It has been a while since I been outdoors painting. But I had found out that having to use a wheelchair or walker to paint is not as easy as folks think.
But I have to say I am etching to get outdoors right now to paint but with record-breaking heat across much of the U.S., I am finding it all most impossible right now.
So what is an artist to do?
Will I am thinking of taking my watercolors outdoors and paint in my car. Or I could do the same thing with my pencil and pen. Just don’t know yet.
But what I do know is during the 2020 shut down, I became so ill that I was paralyze and did not think I was ever going to ever recover.
Will in 2021 I did beat the odds with faith and family but that dose not mean I am fully recover. I still have to rely on walker at times and my hubby to drive me any where over 15 to 20 miles. But give me time and I will be running a race. NOT!!! But will be back to my old self again. (*u*)
So while I was volunteering at the little gallery in Waxahachie, Texas call Art on the Square I was talking to my friend and plein air artist Karla…
We were talking about how hot it is and what we can do to paint outdoors. We came up with few ideas.
Here are a few:
1. Can go sit outside in your garden to paint. Spoiler alert, I have pasture land. I have a little over an acre of land which I am not allowed to put animals on it because of the neighborhood now, HOA down the street …I only have one medium tree and one small tree plus a shed. Not much to look at.
2. Could take some photos into the studio to practice plein air by setting up a timer (this is to simulate the changing of shadows to paint) This is a thought.
3. Could sit under the front or back patio and paint the sunrise or sunset, the different color clouds, or your neighbors houses.
4. Could set up items on a garden table and paint that.
5. Could sit in a coffee shop by a window and paint with watercolor what is outside or the interior/people.
This gave us both food for thought to keep in practice until it gets cooler. But to tell the truth I can’t wait for October when the tree start to change color but the wind is a pain with acrylics. But that’s the challenge you take with acrylics when you plein air.
So until the next time I am out and around Ellis County painting, stop by and say Howdy. I will be the one using my walker or wheel chair as a seat to paint.
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This is me in the middle with my two plein air friend Barbra Malmbergon the right and Bonnie Kent on the left.
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Until next time my friends. Keep creating and God Bless.
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