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When Dan Gray decided to paint the spectacle of people jumping into very cold water in a “Polar Bear” type of event on Vancouver...

The 19th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational was another resounding success. Each year, the event showcases the nation’s top plein air landscape painters, who compete for more than $30,000 in cash prizes. Who grabbed awards last weekend? Find out here.

During an Oil Painters of America Paint-Out near Boerne, Texas, Maren Smith Phillips saw a sight she'd admired during several other stops in the...

Jill Stefani Wagner will tell you how the students teach the teachers and the teachers explore with the students in the drama-free, prima donna-averse atmosphere of the Plein Air Convention & Expo (PACE). It’s one of the reasons she loves being on the faculty there.

A few years ago, Meredith Nemirov sketched aspens until they began to dissolve -- or resolve themselves -- into abstract shapes. Now, the artist...

Through June 10, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, in Altoona, PA, is hosting "Labor and Landscape: 100 Paintings of the Allegheny Mountain Region by Ron Donoughe.

If you’re new to painting outdoors (or know someone who is), take advice from these 11 artists, including the most obvious but overlooked things you should know, and what “plein errors” to avoid.

- Bob Bahr reporting, Editor PleinAir Today - Do you feel like you are capturing a disappearing world when you paint en plein air? Craig...

New works by watercolorist Samantha McNally will soon be featured at the well-known Benicia Plein Air Gallery in California.

Plein air artists will find two exhibitions of landscapes worth seeing this summer in Old Lyme, Connecticut, as the Lyme Art Association pulls together...

When a book publisher mentioned that a book on plein air painters from the Mid-Atlantic states might be something his company would want to...

Discover the award winners of two recent major plein air events!

The Plein Air Painters of Alaska, bound together by their hardy Alaskan “can do” attitude, have battled grizzly bears, huge swarms of mosquitoes, inclement weather, and hours of winter darkness to pursue their passion for painting outside.

Widely respected realist painter David A. Leffel served as judge at Salon International 2014, choosing the award winners from a very attractive exhibition.   Last weekend...

In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and points out why they...

Even master pastelist Albert Handell has had paintings rejected from art shows — see what he has to say about this inevitable part of being an artist.

Professional artist and software engineering manager at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon: Over the past several years, Karen Doyle has worked to juggle these two seemingly opposed career paths, spending her vacation time at plein air painting events or workshops, and painting several evenings a week from life in her home studio. Recently, however, she had the opportunity to completely mix and mash the two when she helped to bring plein air painting and an art exhibit to life at Nike, Inc.

Betty Billups won in the "Best Plein Air Only" category of the June 2021 PleinAir Salon monthly art competition. Here, we spotlight her winning work.

Who hasn’t, at one time or another, fantasized about selling everything they own and hitting the road, traveling and painting? Patrick Saunders is doing...

Jeff Markowsky spent about three months on the road, painting America and attending the Plein Air Convention & Expo. Here's what it did for...