Gil Dellinger was recently elected to be the new President of the Plein Air Painters of America, one of the oldest and most prestigious groups in the country. Donald Demers and John Cosby were elected to be Vice Presidents, Raleigh Kinney will be the Treasurer, and Jean Perry will serve as Sergeant at Arms.

Betty Carr won the Best of Show award on October 28, 2011 at the conclusion of the 7th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival in Sedona, Arizona. Other award winners included Bruce Gomez (Artists’s Choice Award) and Williamson Tapia (2012 Poster Award, sponsored by PleinAir magazine and Sedona Arts center).

If you want to know just how passionate plein air watercolorist can be, you should read the letters we received after failing to feature any watermedia artists in the most recent print edition of Plein Air (we did feature Raleigh Kinney in the digital edition). One artists who complained graciously but firmly was Californian Larry Cannon who showed us just how exciting transparent watercolor can be when used on location.

In the Fall digital edition of PleinAir magazine, Raleigh Kinney offers a demonstration of how to maintain the natural freshness, vibrancy, and immediacy of watercolors when painting Watercolor. The distinguished member of the Plein Air Painters of America also describes his background, teaching, and recent paintings.