Order now and save $20 on a new instructional DVD called Techniques of the Hudson River School Masters with Erik Koeppel, who's one of the most gifted young landscape painters in the country. If you love the masterpieces by 19th-century American artists, you'll want to take advantage of this offer.

The Hudson River School Art Trail is a project to map the painting sites of the artists Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and their contemporaries including Asher B. Durand, Sanford Gifford, and Jasper Cropsey. The HRSAT is now online at a mobile-friendly website, and the organization is accepting submissions for "Postcards from the Trail."

Vermont artist Charlie Hunter didn't know many plein air painters outside his region of the country when he attended the first PleinAir Publisher's Invitational last year in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Now he is teaching plein air workshops, winning awards in festivals, and being featured in PleinAir magazine. He would be the first to encourage you to sign up NOW to make sure you are one of the 100 artists who will be part of the second event, from June 19-24, 2012.

One of the talented artists who participated in the Publisher’s Invitational event in the Adirondack Mountains last June was Lauren Sansaricq. Hawthorne Fine Art gallery in New York City is currently presenting an exhibition of her landscape paintings titled “Nature’s Poetry” that will be on view until January 13, 1012.

The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is one of the art galleries in New York City that regularly exhibits the work of artists who create studies and finished paintings on location. The gallery is currently presenting an exhibition of plein air sketches and studio paintings by John Beerman that is worthy of attention (until October 15, 2011).

The advice often given to collectors of plein air paintings is to develop a “eye” for great paintings, meaning to educate oneself to recognize quality when making comparisons between paintings of the same time period, style, subject matter, or medium. A traveling exhibition of masterpieces offers a rare opportunity to develop the ability to make those important comparisons.