The Best View Is From a Kayak
For the fourth year, artist David Gallup has led a group of artists along some of the most dramatic coastlines in the United States....
OPPORTUNITY: OPA Paint-Out in North Carolina
Oil Painters of America is sponsoring a paint-out in Salisbury, North Carolina, next week. Artist Beth Barger teaches a young student...
Koi, Sand, Swimming, and Plein Air
An event on October 19 in Texas sounds more like a perfect vacation than a painting session. The Art League of...
Familiar Name Among Shorewood Winners
Tom Nachreiner took home the Best of Show award at the Plein Air Shorewood event, and a familiar name nabbed First Place. ...
Mendocino Loves Various Media
Most plein air events don't differentiate among media, or they show a bias toward oils. Not so in Mendocino, California. The Medocino Open Paint...
7 Days, 250 Paintings
The North Shore of Lake Superior was painted by 70 artists recently, and their abundant output made it hard to choose winners. ...
My Favorite Place to Paint: Stacey Peterson
Just four hours from Denver, Stacey Peterson finds a place that offers both remote painting locations and a bustling little town with all the...
Why This Works: “Lobstah Boats”
In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and points out why they...
Parting Shot: Nantucket, 9 a.m.
Marianne Valenti Kuhn snapped this photo of her fellow painters working up some studies on Nantucket, in Massachusetts. Pictured are Kendall...
Robert Bateman: Why Plein Air Painting Is Important
Robert Bateman, one of the most successful representational artists working today, thinks plein air painting is very important -- but not as an art...
Painting the Same Spectacular Views as a Past Master
Thomas R. Dunlay recently offered his workshop participants the chance to paint on the farm of one of America's greatest impressionist painters. ...
De-Modernizing a Castle
Some people may see a tourist stop; an artist will see a fine pastoral scene. Egon Miklavcic told us about his process and the...
Talent Attracted to Wisconsin
A picturesque town of 40,000 can ably support a plein air event, with dazzling entries and solid winners. Want proof?
New Berlin, Wisconsin, population 39,700,...
Painting on a Forbidden Island
What's it like to paint in one of the few spots in the world the U.S. government forbids (most) of its citizens from visiting?
In...
Why This Works: “Spray Along the Marginal Way”
In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and points out why they...
Painting on Grass Five Stories Up
Life is unpredictable for a plein air painter. Sometimes you paint in a windy mountain meadow, and sometimes you paint on top of a...
Paintings on “Terra Firma”
A stellar cast of artists contributed to a landscape show in Culver City, California. Who's on view?
Jeremy Lipking, Matt Smith, Ray Roberts, Josh Elliott,...
Apocalypse Now?
What would the world look like if humans did little to protect it? A new exhibition explores this and similar questions.
David Wagner has assembled...
Parting Shot: Irresistible Tug
Sometimes your boat comes in -- and you wish it hadn't.
Tony D'Amico files this report from Northport, New York, on Long Island: "I am...
Why You Should Take an iPad Into the Field
Many plein air artists have one simple reaction to digital art: horror. Here's why they may be wrong.
An application on an iPad or similar...