The start of Plein Air season coming soon.

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 ( ein Air) so interesting to me. There are always interesting things to be discovered and painted.

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Spring will be here before you know it, so if you are like me, and you are thinking about plein air and hitting the road to new adventures… BUT WAIT!

First, you need to dust off those cobwebs off your gear and see if you have everything you need. 
   But what if you are a beginner or intermediate like me?

 Note: I have run with the big wigs and the beginner and i must say it can be every intimidating most of the time but it is also a wealth of information to grow as a plein air artist.

 I also like to read a lot of art blogs, and I found this blog that well be a good starting point for beginners and a great reminder for intermediate plein air artists also.

5 Tips for Beginner and Intermediate Plein Air Painters

Happy reading (*u*)

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Until next time my friends,keep creating and God Bless y’all.

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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 love to play with watercolor, watercolor  pencils and color pencils.

🎨 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. Along with acrylic painting.

🎨 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.

How to keep your acrylic wet while painting outdoors.

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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How to keep your acrylic wet while painting outdoors.
https://www.liveabout.com/plein-air-painting-keeping-acrylics-from-drying-4070876

NOTE:
1. As you can read in this post that I copy they talk about carrying tubs of paint. I like to use a 7 day pill box to place my paint in so I don’t have the weight in my paint bag.

2. As for a wet palette. I make my own. My Plein Air set up comes with its own mixing tray.

What I do is I line my tray with foil paper. Next I place about 3 to 4 sheets of paper towels on top of the foil paper.

I lightly wet the paper towels and I place 2 sheet of Parchment paper on top of the wet paper towels.

Note: I have try wax paper but over time it brakes down and tears unlike Parchment paper that holds up for long periods of a time.

3. I like to use Clear Gesso as my medium for it dose not does not destroy the integrity of my acrylic paint.
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This is me in the middle with my two plein air friends, Barbra Malmbergo, on the right and Bonnie Kent on the left.
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Until next time, my friends. Keep creating, and God bless.

http://www.jdfieldsartist.com
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Thanks once again for taking the time to read this blog
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I have been house bond…

My Adventure Plein Air

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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Howdy everyone. I have been house bond since Feb 26th. My hubby had full knee replacement and as some folks well recover just fine there is other that don’t recover as well. My hubby is one that is not doing to good.

I have sign up for the per- Historic Waxahachie Plein Air Event next month.

Well see if I can get sometime in paint or draw.

But in the mean time here is a video y’all can watch.

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Until next time, keep creating and God Bless.

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I am deeply grateful for your support, comments and business and a huge thanks to all of those who have recently purchased my paintings and ornaments.

It means a lot to me.

Thanks once again for taking the time to read my blog.

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Do you have a wall that needs to be filled or perhaps

replaced with an image that inspires you? Or a memory you

would like captured? Than I would love to talk to you about

doing a commission painting for you.

And thank you for

your support, your love of art and for letting me sharing my

journey with you. If you have friends who would be

interested in my work, please forward this blog on to

them.

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If you have friends who would be interested in my work, please forward this blog on to them. And

You can continue to stay connected via:

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My art blog:

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Brian Buckrell’s blog…

My Adventure Plein Air

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 just over the hill.

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I just read Brian Buckrell’s blog call “GO TO YOUR ROOM.”

On this post of Feb 25,2018 he talks about… “My thoughts on learning to paint.”

Which you can read here

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http://brianbuckrell.blogspot.com/2018/02/my-thoughts-on-learning-to-paint.html

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Until next time, keep creating and God bless.

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I am deeply grateful for your support, comments and business and a huge thanks to all of those who have recently purchased my paintings and ornaments.

It means a lot to me.

Thanks once again for taking the time to read my blog.

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Do you have a wall that needs to be filled or perhaps

replaced with an image that inspires you? Or a memory you

would like captured? Than I would love to talk to you about

doing a commission painting for you.

And thank you for

your support, your love of art and for letting me sharing my

journey with you. If you have friends who would be

interested in my work, please forward this blog on to

them.

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If you have friends who would be interested in my work, please forward this blog on to them. And

You can continue to stay connected via:

My Website:

http://www.creationsbyjdfields.net

 

My art blog:

https://wordpress.com/iwouldliketotellyall.wordpress.com/

https://wordpress.com/whatsonjdeasel.wordpress.com/

My Newsletter: https://newsletterbyjdfields.wordpress.com/

Follow me on

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Commissions are welcome,

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Re posting a blog by Dan Schultz

My Adventure Plein Air

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 fall is here and winter is just around the corner it will be to cold for some of us to be outdoor, so why not spend this time to rethink out your Plein Air set and where to you want to adventure too.

As I sit here listening to the Fall wind howl and the rain on it ways I found this great blog by Dan Schultz.

https://www.danschultzfineart.com/plein-air-painting-gear-checklist/

I know I will be hitting the open air again to paint outdoors this fall and winter. (it is to hot in the Texas heat for me to paint) So I will be blogging again soon. 

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Until next time, keep creating.

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I am deeply grateful for your support, comments and business and a huge thanks to all of those who have recently purchased my paintings and ornaments. 

It means a lot to me.

Thanks once again for taking the time to read my blog.

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Do you have a wall that needs to be filled or perhaps 

replaced with an image that inspires you? Or a memory you 

would like captured? Than I would love to talk to you about

doing a commission painting for you.   

And thank you for 

your support, your love of art and for letting me sharing my 

journey with you.  If you have friends who would be 

interested in my work, please forward this blog on to 

them.

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If you have friends who would be interested in my work, please forward this blog on to them. And 

You can continue to stay connected via:

 My Website:  

http://www.creationsbyjdfields.net

My art blog: 

https://wordpress.com/posts/whatsonjdeasel.wordpress.com

My Newsletter: https://newsletterbyjdfields.wordpress.com

Follow me on

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creationsbyjdfields/ 

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Google+:  

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Instagram : 

 https://creationsbyjdfields/  

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Contact Me: pals4ever98@hotmail.com 

 

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I been reading a lot of blogs lately …

My Adventure Plein Air

Since I’ve gone to Lori Putman workshop, her word keep ring in my ears about color theory and folks whining about why they can’t do something.  

 I have been reading a lot of blogs lately, FB ha been showing artist with disability and it seem they are all have one thing in common, they don’t whine or say they can’t.

Then last week I was checking my email and I came across this Newsletter by Crista Cloutier called “She looked like Georgia O’Keeffe❤”   which got me thinking about my own life.

I normally don’t share this part of my life  but for you to understand my adventure Plein air you must understand me and my struggles. So hear goes… almost 60 years ago I was born with dyslexic (I was on the high scale about 35 years ago)and who know what else. As I young child I can remember laying on my grandma kitchen floor creating what I thought was art as my grandma taught pregnant mom how to cook my dads favorite meals. I was two and half at that time.

As I grew I kept creating my simple child like art as I was being told by family, teachers and even friends that I could not do this or that because of my dyslexia and being an artist was a no-no to my family and grandmother because they thought I was not smart enough.

Growing up was hard and beginning told all those lies as a child you began to believe them but one. I knew  deep down in my gut that I am a artist even thou they couldn’t see it.

 Then came the day when I put my foot down and taught my self to paint and create as an adult to only hear the doctor tell me that I have osteoarthritis and one day I won’t be able to paint any more.

   Well I have something to say about that and that is, I don’t want to be other Grandma Ach… I am a artist and I have travel a long hard road to get to where I am today. I had to teach my self everything I know and I am a artist.

Now I am taking a new road as an artist and that road is the hardest one yet for me – Plein Air.

I still hear those childhood voices today telling me “You can’t do this or that” and oh the pain that my joints cry out at times. But I have to remind my self that I am an artist and know matter what life throws at me I will create.

Now you are wondering why I say all of this. I am finding that there are a lot of folks out there who are like me. Maybe they don’t have dyslexia but they have been told some lies and even beat down for their dreams but I am here to tell you that if you have that desire burning inside of you and no one could brake it from you, not even time it self, than quite sitting there whining about why you can’t create.

You don’t live in the day of Grandma Ach so stop making excuses and start creating. 

Here is the blog that Crista Cloutier  wrote.

Every family has a story.
 
They called her “Grandma Ach” because of her habit of beginning each sentence with a guttural sound of disapproval. “Ach! What is this?”
 
But her name was Mary Anne.
 
She was the daughter of German immigrants. Farmers. But Mary Anne was an artist.
 
Bright, beautiful, and serious, the photos of my great-grandmother remind me of a young Georgia O’Keeffe.
 
And like Georgia O’Keeffe, Mary Anne was devoted to painting. This is what she wanted to do with her life.
 
But times were very different for women then.
 
One day a man from a neighboring farm named Adam came to call. He was looking for a wife. His own wife, his beloved Elizabeth, had passed away and Adam needed a woman to raise his three kids and run the farm.
 
The daughters were called out and Mary Anne, being the most beautiful, was chosen.
 
She fought back. She didn’t want to get married. She didn’t want to raise children. She was an artist, it was her very soul.
 
But times were very different for women then.
 
Mary Anne would live in Elizabeth’s house, next door to Elizabeth’s parents. She raised Elizabeth’s children and each night she lay with a man who continued to mourn Elizabeth.
 
Over the years, she would give Adam 10 more children. Including my Grandfather.
 
I don’t know if there was a time that she ever liked kids. My Mom remembers Grandma Ach as hard and disinterested. I remember her too, with her long dark hair and piercing eyes. She fascinated me.
 
It wasn’t until she was already an old woman that she finally got all of the children out of the house and on their own paths. And the moment the last one left, Mary Anne marched to the store to buy herself canvas and paint.
 
She was an artist.
 
Finally.
 
But then life played its cruelest joke of all. It took away her sight.
 
Mary Anne went blind.
 
Grandma Ach would live a long life, but not a happy one. Because she was never allowed to do the work she felt most called to do.
 
I look at the choices we have the privilege of making today; about how to spend our time, how to live our lives, what is worth fighting for and who we want to be. We forget how lucky we really are to have such freedom.
 
So when an artist now whines to me that he wants to make art but just can’t get into the studio, making one excuse or another, or she’s thinking of quitting the art business because it’s just too hard, I tell them “That’s your choice.”
 
History is full of too many stories like Mary Anne’s, of artists who literally had no opportunity to do what their soul demanded.
 
“Can’t they see?” I ask myself, as I think of my great-grandmother’s fruitless struggle to be her true self, “Who is really blind?”

 

So now I would like to ask you just one question, “Are you a Grandma Ach or are you an artist living/fighting for your dream?”

As for me, it has been a tough road with bumps, potholes and barricades to brake though and yes I did my share of “I can’t do that” or “Whine, Whine , Whine” but that has long gone. Now when I see something, I look at it as “I can do that” when I don’t have a clue how to do it. I have taught my self most everything I know and with today’s world it is a lot easier to learn that when I was young.

So again “Are you a Grandma Ach or are you an artist living/fighting for your dream?

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Until next time, keep creating.

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I am deeply grateful for your support, comments and business and a huge thanks to all of those who have recently purchased my paintings and ornaments. 

It means a lot to me.

Thanks once again for taking the time to read my blog.

————————————————————

Do you have a wall that needs to be filled or perhaps 

replaced with an image that inspires you? Or a memory you 

would like captured? Than I would love to talk to you about

doing a commission painting for you.   

And thank you for 

your support, your love of art and for letting me sharing my 

journey with you.  If you have friends who would be 

interested in my work, please forward this blog on to 

them.

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If you have friends who would be interested in my work, please forward this blog on to them. And 

You can continue to stay connected via:

My Website:  http://creationsbyjdfields.weebly.com   

My info blog: 

https://iwouldliketotelly’all.wordpress.com  

My art blog: http://theartisteasel

My Newsletter: https://newsletterbyjdfields.wordpress.com

Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creationsbyjdfields 

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