Plein Air /
Field Trips
Urban Sketching, as the name implies, artists use a sketch book instead of an easel. Your supples should fit in a small area. In places such as Starbucks, artists should probably buy a snack or coffee as we’d be taking up customer space. Let’s get together to relax, socialize, and work on art.
Plein Air is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting, drawing, photography or any medium you want in the outdoors. The practice goes back for centuries, but was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists.
This is a Membership Benefit! Bring your own supplies, whether acrylics, oils, watercolors, pastels, pencils, ink , clay, camera or just come to enjoy the environment.
Plein Airs usually go from 9am to 12pm, but feel free to come and go as you need or stay as long as you'd like.
It may be tempting to bring all your art supplies - every tube of paint, every color pencil, every you name it - with you when you go outdoors to create, as if you can take your whole art studio with you outside.
Resist that urge at all costs because it means you will be overloaded and have to carry too many things. Instead, choose your supplies with the idea of traveling light. Less is more.
Also keep in mind, that doing a study or a focused area may be a better way to start with as opposed to trying to have a completed piece of artwork in that time frame.
Please RSVP so we know who might be attending and if you have questions.
March 15 - Palmetto Historical Park
(Saturday) 9 -12
(park opens at 10am but bathrooms available in Library.)
515 10th Ave W., Palmetto, Fl 34221
Park in large lot at 6th St. and 11th Ave., then walk to brick circle in the park.
March 25 - Palma Sola Causeway Park
(Tuesday) 9 - 12
9000 Manatee Ave., W. Bradenton 34209
Meet at the Aqua Restrooms on the right. Parking on both sides of the street.
