Featured Artwork: L. Diane Johnson
L. Diane Johnson
"Rome Winter"
Oil on Linen
20 x 30 in.LDianeJohnson.com
The works of American artist L. Diane Johnson convey an intimacy with the pure landscape, whether...
Featured Artwork: Susan McCullough
Susan McCullough
"Untitled"
Oil
About Susan:Susan McCullough is an oil painter, painting plein air landscapes as well as large studio paintings. Her plein air landscapes are representational...
Featured Artwork: Susie Hyer
Susie Hyer
"Lovers Lookout"
2015
oil on birch panel
29 x 34 in.www.susiehyerstudio.com
Susie Hyer has been drawing and painting since she was a child. "I remember drawing a...
Featured Artwork: John Cogan
"Shady Retreat on the Virgin River"
Acrylic
18 x 24 in.
$3,100
Available via Zion Natural History Association
[email protected]@yahoo.comwww.johncogan.comJohn Cogan captures the beauty of creation on canvas, painting the...
What the Rocks Tell Us: Thank You
In the last of this series of articles, Utah artist J. Brad Holt talks about what artists are seeing as they look at the...
PleinAir Salon Deadline Is Nigh!
Emerging artists enter to get attention, veteran artists submit entries to keep fresh against the competition, and all benefit from the fact that the...
OPPORTUNITY: Ultimate Artists’ & Collectors’ Guide to Plein Air Events and Organizations
Event organizers: Do you want award-winning artists at your plein air competition? Artists: Do you want to be equipped with the most comprehensive list...
Parting Shot: O, Those Pesky Onlookers!
Many plein air painters have horror stories about passersby hanging around, hovering over their shoulders, watching them paint, and making comments. Gregg Holmes is...
EXHIBITION: Curt Walters at Quest for the West Show, Indianapolis
Curt Walters is featured with four new paintings at the 2015 Quest for the West Show & Sale, on view now through October 11...
Artist as Collector: Scott Gellatly
For Scott Gellatly, collecting art is about personal connections. Which three paintings did he pull from his burgeoning collection?
“I think that as a collector,...
Shorewood’s New System Brings Changes, Crowds
The affluent Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood, Wisconsin, played host to a plein air event again this September, bringing with it new winners and some...
Art as Grand as the Grand Canyon at 2015 Celebration of Art
Artists are drawn to the Grand Canyon, and each year the Grand Canyon Association holds a plein air painting event that picks the best...
Who Painted the Peninsula?
Here are the winners from the Port Angeles, Washington, event.
Robin Weiss took three of the biggest prizes; he won Best of Show for “Airstream...
Mendocino Open Paint Out Winners
One artist came away from the Mendocino Open Paint Out with three awards. A hat trick?
Susan Elwart Hall cleaned up in the event’s third...
Minimizing Weight for a Backpack Painting Trip
Aaron Schuerr offered to share his preparations for a solo backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon. Here are the details and the issues he...
Urban Sketchers: Focus on People
Angie Hauch of Urban Sketchers Chicago used her skills as an animator to help artists become more comfortable with sketching the bustling people of...
What the Rocks Tell Us: On to the Modern World
In this series of articles, Utah artist J. Brad Holt talks about what artists are seeing as they look at the landscape. Holt studied...
The Foldable Landscape
Lili Schuch realized that her sketchbook had at some point become the artwork.
Lead Image: The small format of a sketchbook provides portability and...
My Favorite Place to Paint: Jean Koeller
Jean Koeller has fallen in love with a place of turquoise waters and fascinating rock formations. In many ways, it reminds her of a...
Technology Triumphs in Preliminary Step
Rusty Jones is not a raging iconoclast. But he readily abandoned a traditional method of preparation for a painting when his iPhone offered an...