My Favorite Place to Paint: Jack Sorenson
We plan to occasionally feature a painting location that is especially loved by a plein air artist in an effort to introduce new ideas...
Top Artists Demonstrate at Plein Air Convention
Where could you go to watch Scott Christensen, Dawn Whitelaw, C.W. Mundy, Kathryn Stats, and other top artists paint on the same stage? Only...
Winner of 2nd Annual PleinAir Salon Competition Receives $15,000
Publisher Eric Rhoads and Editor Steve Doherty presented $15,000 to the Grand Prize Winner of the 2nd Annual PleinAir Salon Competition last Thursday for...
Cuyahoga Valley National Park Plein Air Competition Dates Set
A plein air competition with prizes will be held June 7 through 9 at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and in the village of...
Plein Air Southwest Salon Announces Best of Show Winner
Each year the Outdoor Painters Society holds the Plein Air Southwest Salon, a national juried competition, and the contest attracts excellent artists from across...
Three Opening Presentations Motivate Artists at Convention
Two artists and a museum director motivated a capacity crowd during the opening-night presentations at the Plein Air Convention & Expo, which just concluded...
Convention Exceeds Participants’ Expectations
An over-capacity crowd of artists participated in the Plein Air Basics and Umbrella Group programs during the Plein Air Convention & Expo, held in...
Record Number of Painters Converge In Monterey
Starting today, a record number of plein air painters will assemble at the Monterey, California, Conference Center in the largest gathering of plein air...
Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Announces Dates
The Chamber of Commerce in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, announced the dates for the 2013 Fall Arts Festival, and that undoubtedly means the phones at...
Wine and Artists — What Could Go Wrong?
The affinity many artists feel for a glass of wine after a long day of painting is well established -- Open Box M even...
John Singer Sargent Watercolors
How did John Singer Sargent's watercolors differ from his oil paintings? Why did he paint them? What is so special about the two large...
Glenn Dean Small Works
Here's a challenge: Take a huge subject, such as mountains, or sprawling prairies, or roiling oceans, and depict it in a small work. California...
The Artist Who Introduced Monet to Plein Air
Eugene Boudin (1824-1898) is rightly considered one of the forerunners of French Impressionism, and his influence was quite direct. As Claude Monet's first teacher,...
Can Artists Make Money Off Their Blogs?
So you're an artist, and you feel that you put a lot of great information on your blog. Some artists charge subscriptions or have...
“The Florida Four” Exhibit
The Casselberry Art House in Casselberry, Florida, is hosting an exhibition and series of painting demonstrations by four accomplished artists. Find out when Morgan...
Frederic Church Paintings of Maine
This summer, Frederic E. Church's magnificent home, Olana, will present an exhibition titled Maine Sublime that will include nearly 30 oil and graphite sketches...
Plein Air Odyssey Begins at Convention
When Susi Havens-Bezaire leaves the Plein Air Convention & Expo in Monterey, California, she will be taking off on a plein air odyssey to...
Submit to Tennessee National Exhibition
The Cumberland Society of Painters will present the Cumberland Society National Exhibition, a showcase of the finest representational work in the nation, to be...
San Francisco Bay Area Artists Attend Largest Paint-Out
On Saturday, March 23, members of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the California Art Club held a spring quarterly paint-out off Old...
$20,000 in Awards Soon to Be Presented
Three final judges of the PleinAir Salon competition are about to decide who will receive $20,000 in cash and art supplies, and feature stories...