{"id":1676,"date":"2016-05-01T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ronaldleeoliver.com\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2016-05-01T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T22:28:55","slug":"san-diego-plein-air-san-elijo-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ronaldleeoliver.com\/blog\/san-diego-plein-air-san-elijo-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Plein air at San Elijo Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Diego has some great places for a plein air painter to set up their easel and create fantastic landscape art. \u00a0One of my personal favorite places to paint en plein air<\/em> (a French term that is universally used to describe the process of painting at an easel in the open air to capture a sense of light and place) is at the San Elijo Lagoon Interpretive Center. \u00a0There is a very well maintained trail and boardwalk that puts\u00a0the painter in a beautiful setting with a minimal amount of hiking effort.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video I took, early on the spectacular April morning of this plein air outing. \u00a0You can see my easel,\u00a0parked and ready to go–the 20×16 inch canvas,\u00a0primed with a purple-grey undertone.<\/p>\n