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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10/20…We had to wait three days for the rain to stop. Then on Saturday Morning hubby woke up and told me to pack a bag for over night. I did not ask questions l was just happy to get out of the house.
It must have been around 3:00 pm when we pull into a little oil town call Snyder. Hubby had been telling me about this triangularly-shaped service station in Snyder, Texas
Directions:
On the north side of US Hwy 180/Coliseum Drive at its triangular intersection with 25th St. and Ave. G. About a mile east of Snyder’s downtown courthouse square.
It was a cloudy day day with a brake from the Fall rain. He said this would be a good place to take pictures and maybe a get a painting in too.
I took a lot of pictures of the gas station as you can see in this blog. Then hubby suggested I paint the gas station. I took one look at it with the time of one and half hour let before sunset and I op-ed to draw it in stead, I only wish I had brought my color pencils with me.
Will hubby pull into an empty lot with a slap on it and park. I pull out my supplies and started to draw but I kept getting this feeling that the cops where going to show up at any min. and ask us what are we doing on private property? But no cops show up just the owner. (This time)
To make a long story short, he ask what were we doing on his property? We told him that I am a artist and I wanted to draw the Sinclair Service Station. Will his face lit up when he heard that. And I was happy to hear him tell us “You can stay and draw as long as you like”.
We thank him and I kept drawing but what I really wanted to do was paint. I drew the bear bones and figure I could come back the next day and put color into my drawing with my paints.
But hubby is not an artist and the next morning we where off to Dublin,Texas to sight see.
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