Plein Air : Digital Adventure

      This is real and it... is... happening!  It's always nice to just be in the moment; life is this continuously revolving door, and it can be really easy to miss the beauty right in front of us.  Day mother flippin' 4, my comrades!  Wouldn't it be funny if one day I came in, and was just like, "blehhh whatever guys, day 243..."  Not this artist!  I will forever be excited because I love this.  It is so easy to stay excited about this when you incorporate neat ass things like digital plein air painting.  So French dudes way back during the impressionist period (1870s-1880s) used to fantasize over being able to capture the beautiful intricacies of light, and gorgeous vistas so much that they decided to leave their cavernous, dungeon like studios, step outside, and paint nature in all its glory.  With the help of paint being tubed, and ultimately portable they were free to do just that.  "En plein air" translates to, "in the open air."  The picture below is horrendous, but I freakin' LOVE it!  I took 20 minutes out of my lunch break at work today, and just decided to go for it.  I drove up some hills, found a great view, and just started to paint.  The beautiful thing is I am not that guy to just let loose, and just paint - I am so apprehensive of every mark I make on the canvas that sometimes after a painting session I feel bad about what I didn't just produce.  But not today!  This exercise is beautiful, and expect to see much more of this in the future (much better though. xD)