After years of painting I have come up with some tips for successful plein air painting outings. It’s about more than having the right supplies! Preparing for a successful outing Part of preparing is gathering the supplies you’ll need, but after that, it’s time to get in the car and head out. Here are some
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I’m enjoying painting images from the 1960s and 1970s. Maybe it’s something about the impossibly high beehive hairdos or the wild curls. All that product they must have used! I could never get the hang of using different products in my hair so maybe that’s the root of this interest, something to do with all
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Spotted this wonderful red barn It’s always so much fun to go out plein air painting and especially fun to paint a red barn. When I start the day I never know what the day will hold. (Which I finally figured out is one of the reasons I love plein air painting so much!) Today
Warm afternoon light effect This painting is a good example of painting light effects when out plein air painting. At the end of a long day of plein air painting, my friend Myrrh and I turned down a dirt road and found this beautiful view to paint! After an incident with ants and moving our
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My friend and I met a little earlier than usual (6:30 a.m.) at our usual spot (mall parking garage) and drove out to our usual area (1 1/2 hours west of Houston). But this time when we exited the Interstate to head off on smaller highways, 2 lane roads and dirt roads, we encountered something
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Yesterday Myrrh and I went out and we both painted this Texas Barn. We hadn’t been out plein air painting in a while and it was great to get back out there. Nerves To be honest, I was a little nervous about going out. I haven’t painted a Texas barn for a while so I
A visit to Cunningham Cabin will round out a stay to the Jackson Hole, WY area. Cunningham Cabin is a one hundred year old log cabin in the middle of the Jackson Hole, WY, valley. It was built by John and Margaret Cunningham in 1888 when they homesteaded 160 acres in this beautiful valley. How
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Jackson Hole provides many wonderful places to paint plein air. On a beautiful day I headed out looking for just one of these places. I didn’t have to go far and I found a beautiful view of Sleeping Indian Mountain with the Gros Ventre River in the foreground. And there was even a small parking
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