First Plein Air

I did my first plein air painting today. It was actually not much different than when I usually paint, because I was still sitting in the same amssage chair I always sit in, but instead of looking at a photo, as I do when I paint at nights, I opened my windows, cranked up the Van Morrsion, and had soaked up the great breeze blowing in, the sunshine, and all the passers-by.

The painting itself may not look like much, but it was actualyl the most fun painting I have done. Mostly because everyone kept stopping to look inside my apartment and check out what I was doing, and one crazy lady who appeared to be only around 30 years old, just stopped and gave me the cherry blossom you see in the lower right corner. "Because it fell" she said.

I've never really noticed how fast the light changes outside. If it takes an hour to finish the first part of the painting, the light is totally different when starting the second part, and the mood has changed so drastically, that the painting became totally different.

Awii doesn't much like fair weather days, as it means I have the window open, and she is locked in her cage.