- Plein air pastel landscape painting of grasses and water in the Everglades
Pastel painting 8.5 inches x 11.5 inches
When I'm down south, I always head out to the Everglades to work on plein air paintings. There is nothing like the light shining on the water wandering through the acres of marsh land. Every view has some enticing little nuance that I want to capture in a pastel landscape. Unfortunately, it is difficult to get very deep into the Everglades with painting equipment. I usually set up my easel on the side of the Tamiami Trail and paint out of the back of my SUV as traffic whizzes by. This has its good and bad points. The noise is terribly distracting, but I feel somewhat safe in a quasi-public area, as opposed to deep in the swamps.
However, when I was painting this piece, I ran into something I hadn't bargained for. I noticed a car with two older couples crawling up behind me. They stopped the car and excitedly asked "Did you see it?" I had no idea what they were talking about. They explained that they had just seen a huge black bear rumbling through the grasses in the field next to me. Oy. But I'm a die hard. I wasn't finished with my pastel painting and I wasn't leaving til I was. But you can be sure I kept a close eye out, in case I needed to escape into my car!
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