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 🤫
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 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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