Try urban sketching or plein air painting.

“The easel was bulky and heavy, and the black surface showed every speck of dirt and paint. Even when oiled, the wooden palette wouldn't stay clean since the wood just sucked in the paints. When setting up the easel with it’s extending odd legs and having to adjust numerous nuts and bolts it became a balancing act. If you stored your supplies in the storage area, the weight would shift and make it difficult to manage. The bag while a great way in theory to move stuff around was floppy and hard to work with. The strap was barely big enough to put over your shoulder and the buckles were useless. That entire semester I was fighting the easel and it made the painting experience an unhappy one. A key part of ‘plein air’ is to be in the ‘open air’ and the Idaho wind was not my friend. My easel tipped over multiple times acting as a sail when the painting caught the wind, spilling my supplies and paintings into dirt, sand, and even a stream.”

“Even after so many years of urban sketching, I feel uncomfortable sitting in the street on my own and sketching alone. When I am together with somebody else, I can sit down pretty much anywhere and not worry about it at all. I love it when passers-by stop and admire my sketches, and ask questions about drawing or urban sketching. Sometimes these little interactions get out of hand: they want to chat for a really long time or, even worse, tell you about their neighbor or friend who is also an artist and I should absolutely see her work. So yeah, if you feel a bit uncomfortable sketching on your own, or if you get annoyed by some passers-by, I feel your pain :)”