In painting from life and the natural world around one, there is an immediacy and eventual meditation as one focuses on trying to capture the picture before one, the composition changing as the sun moves across the sky, shadows shrinking or lengthening and hues altering as the angle of the light changes. There is no time for careful copying from a referencing image…and so plein air painting is a lesson in organizing one’s palette, and absorbing and really seeing the scene before one so as to capture it with an meditative immediacy. This two session workshop will guide one in how to set up and position the easel, and then recognize the variables so as to help the budding artist to focus on what inspires them before capturing the scene with a directness that only painting from nature can result in.