Hopefully articles here have encouraged you to learn to paint. Now we want to put the idea into your head of combining pleasures with painting and camping. Sooner or later you will want to try doing landscapes in the great outdoors as opposed to trying to pull them off of photographic images.
Here is a quick checklist of the few items I think you might need to bring camping and painting:
- small table to hold your paint and brushes
- your easel
- comfy chair that will allow you to sit up straight
- umbrella to give you shade
- bracket to mount an umbrella on your chair or a pole to lash it to
Most of the items can be improvised from the existing camp equipment, but the one thing most people are not used to bringing is an umbrella. It seems to me that a golf umbrella might be the way to go here.
You just can’t sit in the direct sun for very long and be comfortable painting. The glare in your eyes and on your canvas work against you too. Some of your best locations won’t have you near natural shade. If you paint a beach scene what are the chances of you getting a Palm tree to sit under?
The point here is just to get out in the great outdoors and create something that you can’t capture with the camera alone. Find something you can capture that has a little of your imagination in it. At the same time you and your family can be enjoying the great outdoors together and camping.
