The California Art Club is focusing on the theme of water in its current exhibition at the Old Mill, in San Marino, California. The show is on view until September 1.

Noted painter and instructor Kevin Macpherson has made several trips to China over the last four years, with the latest being this spring. It seems the United States could not ask for a better artist-ambassador, based on his journal entries, shared thanks to Peter Adams, the president of the California Art Club.

A slightly larger and less animated cat "threatened" Peter Adams, the president of the California Arts Club.

On April 27, the Autry Museum and John Geraghty teamed up with the California Art Club to present their Annual Plein Air Paint Out and Luncheon at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, California.

On Saturday, March 23, members of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the California Art Club held a spring quarterly paint-out off Old Lakeville Highway No. 3 in Sonoma. The event attracted some of the top artists in the country.

During the Plein Air Convention & Expo, Joe Paquet will talk about ways we can develop and manage our art careers that are both authentic and personal.

One of the hottest young artists in California will work with students and community members as an artist-in-residence from February 1 through March 2 at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.

The California Art Club is presenting a lecture by Peter Adams on his experiences painting in Jerusalem, at the Bakersfield Museum of Art on January 19 at 2:30 p.m. Come listen as Peter talks about spending the entire night painting inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Florida artist Morgan Samuel Price and Maine artist Donald Demers are friends who both enjoy plein air painting, yet each has a distinctly different way of analyzing potential subjects, organizing pictorial compositions, and working with oil colors. Here’s a preview of the program they will offer at the Monterey, California, Conference Center in April 2013.

If you entered the September/October PleinAir magazine Salon competition (www.pleinairsalon.com), you'll have the good fortune of having your artwork reviewed by Michael Zakian, director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University. Read about this museum director who organizes exhibitions of plein air paintings.