The travelogue is now getting interrupted to show you what happened when I tried plein air painting back home in Three Rivers. The Kaweah Post Office is a subject which I have drawn and painted many times. I am currently without an oil painting of it, so it is on my list to paint next. […]
Story Concluded
I read about St. Simons Island, love the beach, learned that an artist needs to paint plein air, “met” an artist who teaches plein air on St. Simons Island, and met a real person who lives there. The real person invited me to stay with her and her family at their home by St. Simons […]
A Story, Continued
In yesterday’s story beginning, we learned that I liked the beach and reading. Where are we going with all this? I also loved to draw and figured that when I grew up, I’d live at the beach and be an artist who painted. Instead, I live near and sometimes in the mountains, and I used […]
Plein Air Painting
In reference to plein air painting, a friend who is a watercolorist emailed me and said, “I thought as a oil painter you would be into it.” That is a common assumption about oil painters. (My friend is more artistically adventuresome than I am. She goes out in an atmosphere where sometimes the watercolors evaporate […]