Plein air sketch.
Plein air sketch at Millerton Lake, Ca
Yesterday I met with my Tuesday Plein Air Group from the Fresno area. We went to Millerton Lake, California. We were just four of us, but the place was wonderful, filled with water foal, tree birds and an occasional coyote call in the distance, and the weather was delicious. There I did some sketches while two of my friends painted with watercolors and the other used oil paints.
I’ve been meeting with this group since March. Plein air painting is new to me, and I find it a chalenge to paint on a smaller format then what I’m used to. I’m usually paint on formats, such as 26′x48′ . also my paintings usually focus on one subject or element. But the great outdoors gives me so much information, that I need to weed out a lot. Sketches will hopefully do that for me. The plus of going out with this group is the comradery and the inspirations that I bring back to the studio. Every time I go somehow I capture and want to share something of God’s great creation.
