Part – 6 of Paint Historic Waxahachie Plein Air Event 2022

Welcome to My Crazy Plein Air Adventures blog.

Beauty is where you find it. And sometimes it’s found by climbing over a few fences to get to an unusual subject. 

That’s part of what makes outdoor painting (Plein Air) so interesting to me. There are always new and interesting things to be discovered and painted.

This is my last post of this year 2022 Paint Historic Waxahachie Event.

I debated which blog site to post this on so I will post it on both. This one and https://whatsonjdeasel.wordpress.com/

  You might be asking yourself why? 

Will I’m glad you ask?

A group of gals who participated in the Paint Historic Waxahachie Event decided to paint in their medium i.e.: Watercolor, Oils, Inks, etc. of the old College Street Printing Co. Building. But I decided to draw it.

As you see here, I had started this drawing in the pre-paint event. But decided to hold off so I could have something for the actual downtown event.

Well, it seems later on that it was not going to happen for this drawing. We only had one week to paint downtown (which is plenty of time for most plein air artist) but for some reason (I can only speak for me) I felt like I was under pressure. Like I did not have enough time to paint what I wanted too.

So, when it can down the wire, I had to made a hard decision. Stop where I am at and complete it in the studio? This meant I could not place it in the Paint Historic Waxahachie show.

It was a really hard decision but I held back on the drawing and submitted a painting that I had completed.

After the show was over and I started to put my house back in order I went to the easel to complete my drawing as you can see here.

Note: This is what it looks like after I spayed it so that the drawing cannot get smug. They always come out a little darker than what ya plan. And that’s OK with me for I always draw it a little lighter so that when I spay, it usually comes out the way I want it.

What do you think about this drawing? Would you have tempted to push through and complete it for the show?        

  Would love to hear your thoughts.

This is me in the middle with my two plein air friend Barbra Malmberg on the right and Bonnie Kent on the left.

Until next time my friends God Bless. 

http://www.jdfieldsartist.com

https://society6.com/jdfields

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P.S.

Thank you for your interest in my art. Be among the first to know when I have new paintings available to purchase by following my “Art Alert” on my website https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/jd-fields-12961/artalertsubscribe

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Q & A 

Who is this gal name J.D. Fields

🎨 My name is J.D. Fields and I love to draw and paint nature.

🎨 I was born in Southern California but I’m a two-time transplanted to Texas which I now call home.

 🎨 I married my best friend and soul mate in 1998.

🎨 My husband has three children, two boy and a girl and I have one girl and two boys. When we got married, we put them altogether and call us all family 

  🎨 I am acrylic artist but I am starting to teach my self-watercolor painting.  I try to draw several times a week also

  🎨 When did I start learning to draw? I can remember being two and half years old laying on my grandma kitchen floor trying to draw the animal on her land.

   🎨 Growing up I have been able to explored many different medium – Fabric Art, Crocheting, Oil Paint, Pen & Ink Painting and Color Pencils, Charcoal and Graphite Pencil.

   🎨 Do you sell your work? Yes, I sell my originals, Painting, drawing and greeting cards online and in galleries.

  🎨 Do you teach classes? Yes, I teach Acrylic for Beginner’s workshop to adult. I also teach drawing and Acrylics for teens.

  🎨 Back in the early 2000 I had wanted to try my hand in plein air.      In July 2013 I took the plug and never look back. 

  🎨 Whether I’m in my studio or outdoors I am still learning to draw upon those early influences in a way that I look at life, the subject I chooses and the matter in which I paints.

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So if you know of someone who could enjoy reading my crazy plein air adventures, please send them over to this page so that they can join

Thanks once again for taking the time to read this blog

Part – 5 of Paint Historic Waxahachie Plein Air Event 2022

Welcome to My Crazy Plein Air Adventures blog.

Beauty is where you find it. And sometimes it’s found by climbing over a few fences to get to an unusual subject. 

That’s part of what makes outdoor painting (Plein Air) so interesting to me. There are always new and interesting things to be discovered and painted.

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Remember I told you about the Waxahachie Historical Society “Saves these Places” and I went through the list and choose two places to try my hand at ?

Well my second choice was the Historic Getzendaner Park with its 100 to 300 year Old Oak Trees. I love this park. It is so peaceful with those Majestic Oak Trees on the property. They are just lovely to look at and study.

As hubby and I drove around the park we could not decide on which tree for me to paint. After the third time around the park we both agree on this old twist oak tree.

So we park and I start to set up. But then it hits me… Hummmm? It has been since last year that I use a pallette knife to paint with. But I want to give this lovely oak tree a good amt of texture and the only way to do that was with my trusty pallette knife. So I dove in…

Boy am I rusty with my pallette knife. LOL But I am also having a ball siting under the tree, listening to the birds, seeing the children  chase the squirrels and just enjoy a pleasant Sunday afternoon at the park.

Will as y’all can see from my painting that I am now in full sun and my arms are getting a little sunburn. The umbrella that I brought is a small one that attaches to my chair. I should have brought my big boy umbrella. That one will cover me, my chair and my easel.

As I am painting I am finding that the bugs and nats are getting stuck in my painting, the ants are falling from the tree onto my wet paint and the salt on my arms is attracting some kind of critter.     But all is good.     

  I need to stop right now and come back tomorrow because I just can’t get my shadow in. It seem that I need to let the paint on my canvas dry so I can 1. Make corrections 2. Add the darks and shadows in were I want them.

Well the next day we came back at the same time of day and I made my corrections and shadow changes as y’all can see in the photo of my hubby holding up the painting.

Title: “They call me Majestic” This will be hanging at the gallery Art on the Square, 113 W. Franklin St, Waxahachie, Texas til the first of Aug 2022 .

Sorry for the bad photo shot. I’m not a photographer 🤫

This is me in the middle with my two plein air friend Barbra Malmberg on the right and Bonnie Kent on the left.

Until next time my friends. Keep creating and God Bless. 

http://www.jdfieldsartist.com https://society6.com/jdfields

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P.S

Thank you for your interest in my art. Be among the first to know when I have new paintings available to purchase by following my “Art Alert” on my website https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/jd-fields-12961/artalertsubscribe

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Q & A 

Who is this gal name J.D. Fields

🎨 My name is J.D. Fields and I love to draw and paint nature.

🎨 I was born in Southern California but I’m a two-time transplanted to Texas which I now call my home.

 🎨 I married my best friend and soul mate in 1998.

🎨 My husband has three children, two boy and a girl and I have one girl and two boys. When we got married, we put them altogether and call us all family 

  🎨 I am acrylic artist but I am starting to teach my self-watercolor painting.  I try to draw several times a week also

  🎨 When did I start learning to draw? I can remember being two and half years old laying on my grandma kitchen floor trying to draw the animal on her land.

   🎨 Growing up I have been able to explored many different medium – Fabric Art, Crocheting, Oil Paint, Pen & Ink Painting and Color Pencils, Charcoal and Graphite Pencil.

   🎨 Do you sell your work? Yes, I sell my originals, Painting, drawing and greeting cards online and in galleries.

  🎨 Do you teach classes? Yes, I teach Acrylic for Beginner’s workshop to adult. I also teach drawing and Acrylics for teens.

  🎨 Back in the early 2000 I had wanted to try my hand in plein air.      In July 2013 I took the plug and never look back. 

  🎨 Whether I’m in my studio or outdoors I am still learning to draw upon those early influences in a way that I look at life, the subject I chooses and the matter in which I paints.

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    Thanks once again for taking the time to read this blog

Part – 4 of Paint Historic Waxahachie Plein Air Event 2022

Welcome to My Crazy Plein Air Adventures blog.

Beauty is where you find it. And sometimes it’s found by climbing over a few fences to get to an unusual subject. 

That’s part of what makes outdoor painting (Plein Air) so interesting to me. There are always new and interesting things to be discovered and painted.

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Now that Paint Historic Waxahachie Event had kick off and we got our list to participate in the Waxahachie Historical Society “Saves these Places” I went through the list and choose two places I wanted to try my hand at.

Now I love to paint landscapes, old Trees, a memory of time pass, really anything that is old, but I need to step up my game and start painting old Historic Landmark, building and homes. So I decided to try my hand at the Henry Curry Baseball Field.

This is the scene that I want to paint.

But this time I was going to have to paint in my car due to the weather. I also knew hubby would not be a happy camper with me using my Acrylics in my car. You see it can get really messy.

So I opted to use my watercolor pencils just like I did for the Texas State Flower (Bluebonnets). You can read about it here https://mypleinairadventuresblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/31/paint-historic-waxahachie-plein-air-event-2022-part-2/

But as you can see here it was not working for me this time like it did with the the State Flower. Beside little did we know that there was going to be a little league game going on that day.🤔 So this is how far I got before folks starting parking around us and my view was taken away. 😥

We noticed that some of the folks were parking in the handicap area and they were not even handicap. Shame on them!!! I am handicap and still have to use a walker when I am out and about. I felt so bad for the folks who are handicap. They had no where to park that day.

So hubby as me to pack it up so that he could give up his spot and we decided to came back on a weekday next week.

The following week we went back to the site and I knew that my color pencils was not going to work for me. So I decided to try my hand with some watercolors and just play for once and not worry about trying to create a painting that the judge would like and try to win an ward on.

Well wouldn’t you know it other game. 😲 But I did manage to get this far with this painting and decided to move to other place to paint. But that will be for other blog…

This I title: “Let’s Play Ball” this will be hanging at the gallery Art on the Square, 113 W. Franklin St, Waxahachie, Texas.

Do you work in Watercolor? What Watercolor brand do you use?

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This is me in the middle with my two plein air friend Barbra Malmberg on the right and Bonnie Kent on the left.

Until next time my friends. Keep creating and God Bless. 

Thank you for your interest in my art. Be among the first to know when I have new paintings available to purchase by following my “Art Alert” on my website https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/jd-fields-12961/artalertsubscribe

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So if you know of someone who could enjoy reading my crazy plein air adventures, please send them over to this page so that they can join.

    Thanks once again for taking the time to read this blog

Part – 3 of Paint Historic Waxahachie Plein Air Event 2022

Welcome to My Crazy Plein Air Adventures blog.

Beauty is where you find it. And sometimes it’s found by climbing over a few fences to get to an unusual subject. 

That’s part of what makes outdoor painting (Plein Air) so interesting to me. There are always new and interesting things to be discovered and painted.

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My next painting is from the Pre-Paint Historic Waxahachie Event. I have been always interested in what my husband call “The Hanging Tree”.

Just before I decide to paint this painting hubby was talking to our neighbor in the back and he told us the history of this local tree that we see every day from our back yard. It seems that a couple of years before we move into our new home (we bought our house in 2015) a Tornado had touch down about a half a mile or so and cut across my back yard and through the two neighbors yards also before hitting this wall of trees and cutting across the farmers field. As you can see it was a small tornado for it remove the leaves from that one tree but sadly to say it never grew back again.

Here you can see that I had started the painting (in Acrylic) but I was having a hard time trying to paint with watery eyes and a running nose. Sorry for that gross picture 😵‍💫 (I also just found out last month that I have moderate cataracts too.) I was ready to trash this one in the burn pile but after a couple of days of rest I went back to it to see if I would salvage it and this is what I came up with…

In my head I could see some wild flowers and weeds but when I did added them in it through the hold painting off its kilter. So I remove it. I was every discourage with this painting but I am not ready to give up or throw in the towel. Will see with the next painting will bring.

I have read and have been told that you will paint 100+ Plein air paintings that come out bad before you will come home with one good one. Well if that is the case that I am on my way. Ha Ha

I’am calling this one “A Different View”. This will be hanging at the gallery Art on the Square, 113 W. Franklin St, Waxahachie, Texas. until the end of July.

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Note: You will find that a lot of artist who post or blog like this one will write about how great things are or look at what a great painting I created. ( No offense to these artist or bloggers by any means or ways.) But I want to show y’all that we are artist do have bad days and bad paintings. We are only human.

There are day I do want to throw in the towel and give up Plein Air but there is something about being out side in nature that pulls on the artist soul…

But I will blog about all of that at a later date.

If you have any questions about the up and downs of Plein air, how and where to start, etc. Just leave me a comment and I will be happy to answer any and all of your questions. How knows it just might be apart of my blog.

This is me in the middle with my two plein air friend Barbra Malmberg on the right and Bonnie Kent on the left.

Until next time my friends. Keep creating and God Bless.  —————————————————

Thank you for your interest in my art. Be among the first to know when I have new paintings available to purchase by following my “Art Alert” on my website https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/jd-fields-12961/artalertsubscribe

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So if you know of someone who could enjoy reading my plein air adventures, please send them over to this page so that they can join.

    Thanks once again for taking the time to read this blog