What a beautiful day! My sister Mary Jo came out to our farm to paint today. We decided to paint out in the apple orchard. Mary likes to walk around for about 10 – 15 minutes to look for what she wants to paint. She takes lots of pictures with her smartphone. I actually was still finishing up with my household chores so missed this part of Mary’s plein air painting process. When she came in we looked at her pictures and decided to paint the apple trees out by the cow pasture while we still have time. She did get a nice pic of Gary’s big red truck in the barn. Maybe we will paint that another day. So we gathered up our painting gear and headed out to the orchard. Mary is pretty quick at setting up her gear. She is painting with oils and I am using watercolors. After I got all the way out to the orchard I wished that I had brought my plein air easel. Mary found a funny looking tree that was leaning and full of apples. I decided to do a “study” of a branch of apples on a different tree. We got off to a good start but did not finish the paintings today. I think we may work on them some more this weekend.
