{"id":3888,"date":"2016-12-03T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T21:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2016-12-03T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T21:05:48","slug":"playing-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/playing-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Jefferson Kitts<\/a> brought to my attention a short video about teaching plein air painting to kids. This made me a little nostalgic as I used to go out and paint way prior to the current plein air renaissance and even before it was dubbed ‘plein air’. When my parents gave me an oil paint set during my high school years, the first paintings I did was outside of the lake by where we lived. I searched through all my old photos to see if I had any of me painting prior to going full time in the early 2000’s while I had a day job as a computer software developer. Heres what I found. <\/p>\n

The first two are painting in the snow (sorry for the quality, but they are old Polaroids) probably around 1979, and I think around Strawberry, California along Hwy 108. <\/p>\n

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plein air painting in the late 70’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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plein air painting in the late 70’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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…and some in Yosemite in the early 90’s.<\/p>\n

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plein air painting in the early 90’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Here is the video–<\/p>\n

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