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.
Please RSVP so we know who might be attending and if you have questions.
May 13th - Parrish Community Park
(Tuesday) 9am -12pm
7550 Fort Hamer Rd, Parrish, FL 34219
trails and views! Let’s check it out and park ourselves in a scenic spot!
May 31st -Gamble Plantation
(Saturday) 9am - 12pm
3708 Patten Ave, Ellenton, FL 34222
It’s a beautiful “oldie, but goodie”! We’ll meet at the mansion
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.
