We’re proud to announce that one of Ken Auster’s plein air paintings of San Francisco will be featured on the cover of the February/March issue of PleinAir magazine, the first issue in the expanded bimonthly frequency of the magazine. Auster will be the subject of a feature story in the issue that highlights his career, his painting techniques, and his participation in the 1st Annual PleinAir Convention & Expo taking place from April 12-15, 2012 in Las Vegas.

Participants in Mark Brown’s September 24, 2011 plein air workshop in Waimanalo Bay Beach Park in Oahu, Hawaii walked away from their easels to listen to Brown critique a painting on an easel position off by itself. John A Dixon looked back at the unattended easels and snapped a photograph.