Channeling Virginia Woolf

To write about plein air painting

Photo by the Author While Painting in the Park with a Friend

Perhaps only someone who draws or paints has experienced the stirring, the gnawing, deep in the gut, the catch in the breath that accompanies that first glimpse of a stunning composition that beckons her to paint. Like the musician who listens to the melody of the wind swishing through leaf-laden trees, a wave crashing upon its own waters and lapping upon the shore, or the soulful…