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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Note: My apologies to everyone who is reading this. I am late posting this blog but I feel that it would still be worth reading.
Now that the Paint Historic Waxahachie Event has been over since May I had plans to continue to go out and Plein air…
So I started in my back yard with my Texas Bluebonnets Wild Flowers. But this time instead of painting I wanted to just draw with my color pens. Here is my simple drawing.
I had plan on getting out there to paint but then the Texas summer came in early and before I knew it we are hit with extreme heat and drought.
So now I am between a rock and a hard place. I just found out that I have cataracts in both eyes but worst in my right eye. Plus since I got sick back in 2019 I can’t tolerate the heat now.
So what is a gal to do?
As I was watch some YouTube videos I came across Sarah Burns of Sarah Burns Studio and I want to share her take on the 30 Day OutDoor Painting Challenge. (this was in April)
This has given me renew hope in how I can keep up with outdoor painting while taking off the pressure of creating paintings all the time. I love this idea.
30 Day Outdoor Painting Challenge
So after watching her video I created a little drawing bag that my hubby likes to call my “Linus Bag”. (If you ever watch the Peanuts than you know Linus always carry his blanket ever where he went.)
Here I have converted a bible book bag that I had laying around the house for years and have place my 5×7 sketch book, a variety of color writing pens in a pencils notebook bag, a tissue that I can use to wipe my writing pens with, a face make, a set of drawing pencils with an eraser, a little pink container that holds a rule, pencils sharpener, black pen, a small paintings brush to wipe away any crumbs from my eraser, two bandaid and two granola bars ( I am a diabetic) and business cards plus some odds and ends.
This little art bag that I created goes with me everywhere I go. And when I see something that I want to draw I don’t have to worry about looking for something to draw on or having to go back at a later time (this usually never happen for me) for I have my little handy art bag.
Here is a plein air drawing that I did while waiting for my hubby while he took care of business on his truck. As I sat in the car I decided to draw these trees in pen. So glad I had my little Linus Bag with me so that I could capture the moment.
Until next time my friends. Keep creating and God Bless.
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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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