Although I really enjoy doing Plein air painting with my painting buddies, sometimes I just want to paint them instead the landscape. Trees, hills and sky can be wonderful, but it’s nice to change it up occasionally.
If you take a moment to think about it, you could paint anything outside and it would be “plein air” — you could paint an abstract! A couple of weekends ago, I decided to just give it a try. This was not done all at once, I added the artist watching who arrived later, so it can’t be called “alla prima”. Why is it that we use terms in other languages to describe some of these things? Maybe it’s because we feel like it gives it more gravitas or legitimacy as art or something.
Micaela Marsden 
Great painting and post—those are good questions! I love your light and airy color scheme and the vitality, movement and action captured by your composition.
Thank you! Trying to record summer before it was entirely gone… We have a lot of time to think sometimes while painting. Are there answers? Probably many!