Tag Archive for: plein air

Time of Day Series – 4

Today was cloudy... I went out to my painting spot at the same time as yesterday... about 4 and did a Cloudy Evening painting. Unfortunately, my phone battery was dead.. so I wan't able to take a picture of the location.. bummer, I like doing…

Time of Day Series 3

Part 3 in this series where I am painting same scene at different times of day, capturing the color and light difference. Today I got to my painting spot for a late afternoon/sunset painting.The air here is so clean that we don't get those gorgeous…

Time of Day series 1 & 2

Good Morning! Here is the beginning of a new series. I am painting the same view in different lights. At different times of the day. To be able to perceive the color differences at various times of day. I would probably extend this to different…

Boulders 3 – Granite Dells

Yesterday I went out to Watson Lake to paint. It's beautiful, but yesterday was free parking day and there were a lot of people. I like to be secluded with just me the paints and my thoughts when I am painting and it was irritating when people…

Day 25 of 30 in 30

So today was a day to get out of the house and paint. Well... By the time I started thinking about it, the wind picked up... It is sooo windy! But anyway, I headed out to Willow Lake. A beautiful spot. It's a reservoir that is built among these…

Day 22 of 30 in 30

Crazy wind all day long so didn't really feel like braving the wind and standing outside andpainting this mornig. Also was my son's 13th birthday today! So it was just a busy knida day.So I decided to put up my "extra" painting for today/ This…

Day 11 of 30 in 30

Again, a rainy day... I really wanted to do a sunny day painting today but after waiting to almost noon I peeked out and this beautiful fog was covering the mountain... But within 5 minutes, soon as I was setup to paint, it changed. It started…

Day 10 of 30 in 30

Can you believe it has already been 1/3 of the paintings done? Wow!Today's painting was done while literally I was standing out in the rain! At least it wasn't pouring!This is hte view if I stand in the wash that run through the property. Wild…

Day 9 of 30 in 30

This morning as I was coming back after dropping the kids at school I saw how the clouds were so low and covering up the mountain. And I couldn't resist doing yet another painting from my back porch while it was drizzling the whole time and…

Day 1 of 30-in-30

Wow... I am rusty...The first of the 30 - in - 30 challenge. I did this plein air in my backyard. The Granite Mountain in part shadow and some lovely clouds today. I should have left out the bottom, though...I definitely need more practice working…