Embrace The Sunshine

Look at this delicious day! 

Eyes on the Forecast


Since last week I have been watching the weather waiting for a "Today Day."  Today was the perfect summer day, all sunshine and low humidity and blue sky -- let's get outside and paint! 

A Good Start...

After the forecast last night, I emailed TWENTY (yep 20) of my artist friends inviting them out to plein air paint with me in the park today.  All I needed was one supportive artist to meet me there! 

Candace met me in the park and the two of us had a whole discussion on how having someone else (that one other person) to paint with makes all the difference with regards to motivation and painting. All of us think about painting and know we should take advantage of these perfect days, but often none of us get out there to do it on our own. 

Tree Aglow

Candace and I each are signed up for our first Plein Air Paint Out next month and we know that the more plein air experience we have beforehand the better our paintings could be. I want to ensure that my set up is comfortable, my plein air checklist accurate, and I want to scope out plein air locations. Equipment set up was especially important for Candace as she has a new easel. I pretty much tested my equipment at a painting retreat a few weeks ago (a good challenge).

My painting--well I started off great and then towards the finish I got a little lost with the background trees. My friend had problems with her canvas, it was too smooth and slick to take the oil paint. We each had our issues and yet we both agreed today was a good day because being outside in the sunlight, listening to the birds sing was meditative and beautiful.