I DID IT!!!

Last night after work I went over to Big 5, a sporting outfit store

and found my ARTIST'S CHAIR.

It's by Coleman, and is a camp chair with a side tray that includes a hole for a water cup, room

for paints, brushes, pens, pencils, etc. even an eraser!

It folds up and has handles for carrying it too.

This morning I headed out a whole five miles from home to a small Regional Park

called Pena Adobe.

I parked in the lot and walked several yards to this spot where I set up my chair and supplies

 it was really picture perfect! A light blue sky, beautiful trees and shadows!

 This is a watercolor set that looks like kids paints but I think they are pretty good. What do I know?
I used a brand new flat water brush. And I drew and painted in my larger 9" X 12" sketchbook with watercolor paper #140.

 First I drew with pencil and that took about twenty minutes. A guy jogged past me and shouted out:
"Are you drawing?" I said: "I AM!!!" He gave me a huge smile! I felt both encouraged and then a little voice in my head said 'who the heck do you think YOU are?' But I quickly shooed her away!!!

This is the painting

 and then I used what I now consider MY STYLE and took out a fine tipped artist pen and outlined the areas I wanted to high light. I like my trees and sky. My shadows look more like water running down hill, but what the heck. I am learning.

And the best part of it was that I had fun doing it...spent almost two full hours at it...and came away feeling darn proud of myself! So there! Lynn the Plein Air Artist at work!

If you want to see more you can click to enlarge the photos, but it's okay if you don't. LOL