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 interesting things to be discovered and painted.
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The 2024 Outdoor Painting Plan
Happy 2024 New Year!
I hope you and yours plus your friends had a great 2024 New Years Eve and Day.
Can you believe 2023 went by so fast. It seems liked I just blink and it was Spring, then Summer and then Fall, and before I knew it, it was New Year’s Eve.
As we all headed into 2024 most folks made their New Year’s Resolution. I normally don’t participate in the New Year’s Resolution because I am one of the 98% of folks that by February will break or forget my new year plan. But this year I decided to put a simple Painting New Years Resolution for the coming 12 months.
Why am I telling y’all this? It is a way of being accountability to all of ya.
You may be asking yourself “What is your plan for your art in 2024?“
I normally in some way will set some small goals/plans for myself (Not a New Year’s Resolution) that I feel that I can achieve. Throughout the years I have found that if I don’t at lease set some goals/plan for myself I well tend to drift through the year or even life. Even when life getting in the way as it did in 2023, I still had a choice to move forward with my goals and plan.
In the first part of 2023 I did more forward but then I had to have Cataract surgery, hubby had to have hip surgery shortly after that and one of my favorite galleries had to close down due to high rent. So, I stop my goals and plan and the rest of the year went by so every slowly and I have anything to slow for it. My painting did not improve, and my inspiration got put on a shelf.
But this year I am working towards a goal that I can follow so that I can make progress for my art in 2024.
Now I am going to keep this plan simple.
My plan for my painting in 2024 is this:
* Study and learn – 30 minutes for three or four days.
* Painting – 30 minutes to 2 hours per three times pre-week
* re-join the OPS (Outdoors Painter Society) and plan some trips for Plein Air painting and photo references
* Go out on my own to practice my sketching/painting skills
*Look for some online galleries and one or two stone and brick building (fingers cross)
* Practice my sketching skills
* Sell 25 paintings for year.
*Get back to blogging again
These are my minimum commitments to myself for 2024.
The most important thing about this simple plan is it is based around CONSISTENCY.
One of my online teachers is Rod Moore and he said in an email, “Setting some goals is like setting the sails in your yacht. The same winds blow on us all but those who have their sails set tend to get where they want to go.”
So, as we jump into 2024, I will do my best to blog about my art and othering.
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Until next time, my friends keep creating, and God bless y’all.
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My Web site:
https://www.jdfieldsartist.com
My FB Business page:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088154403492
My Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/jdfieldsartist/
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Answer a Frequently Asked Question
Who is this gal J.D.?
🎨 My name is J.D. Fields and I love to draw and paint nature.
🎨 I am a Texas artist
🎨 I married my best friend and soul mate in 1998.
🎨 My husband has three children, two boys and a girl, and I have one girl and two boys. When we got married, we put them altogether and called us all family.
🎨 I am an acrylic artist, but I love to play with watercolor, watercolor pencils, color pencils and pens.
Q 🎨 Do you or have you ever painted in Oils?
A 🎨 Yes, I use to paint in oil in the beginning (1977 – 1984) but I became allergic to the oils and cleaning products and had to stop.
🎨 In 2019 I try again for a very short time and once again I got really sick.
Q 🎨 When did I start learning to draw?
A 🎨 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 explore many different mediums – Fabric Art, Sewing, Crocheting, Oil Paint, Pen & Ink Painting, Color Pencils, Charcoal, Graphite Pencil. Along with Acrylic painting.
Q 🎨 Do you sell your work?
A 🎨 Yes, I sell my originals, painting, drawing, and greeting cards online and in galleries.
Q 🎨 Do you create portraits?
A 🎨 Not really. I am a landscape artist and I paint pet portraits also.
Q 🎨 Do you sell painting with frames?
A 🎨 Only if they are a custom frame made for the painting.
Q 🎨 How can I purchase a painting that I ready like but has been already sold?
A 🎨 You can email me at j.d.fieldsartist@gmail.com and place in the subject line ” the name of the painting.” I will be happy to recreate a Similar one, but it will not be a copy. All My paintings are original.
Q 🎨 Do you teach classes?
A🎨 Yes, I teach acrylic for Beginner’s workshop to adults. 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 looked back.
🎨 In 2023 I have started to participate with the Urban Sketches in Fort Worth/ Dallas area in the US.
🎨 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 Open block settings Open publish panel
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Until next time, my friends keep creating, and God bless y’all.
My Web site:
https://www.jdfieldsartist.com
My FB Business page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088154403492
My ebay shop: pals4_98
My Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/jdfieldsartist/
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Q & A
Who is this gal J.D. ?
🎨 My name is J.D. Fields and I love to draw and paint nature.
🎨 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 boys and a girl, and I have one girl and two boys. When we got married, we put them altogether and called us all family
🎨 I am an acrylic artist, but I love to play with watercolor, watercolor pencils, color pencils and pens.
🎨 Do you or have you ever painted in Oils?
🎨 Yes, I use to paint in oil in the beginning (1977 – 1984) but I became allergic to the oils and cleaning products and had to stop.
🎨 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 explore many different mediums – 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 create portraits?
🎨 Not really. I am a landscape artist.
🎨 Do you sell painting with frames.
🎨 Only if they are a custom frame made for the painting.
🎨 How can I purchase a painting that I ready like but has been already sold?
🎨 You can email me at j.d.fieldsartist@gmail.com and place in the subject line ” the name of the painting.” I will be happy to recreate a similar one but it will not be a copy. All My paintings are original.
🎨 Do you teach classes?
🎨 Yes, I teach acrylic for Beginner’s to adults. 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 looked 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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