Lager & Landscapes Featured in Maryland
Artist and gallery owner Crystal Moll is hosting an exhibition of paintings by herself, Tim Kelly, and Tim Bell, as well as a sampling...
Recycle Your Laptop as a Plein Air Box
Not sure what to do with that old laptop computer no one can repair or upgrade? Arizona artist Karen McLain came up with a...
Paint the Snow
Californian Kathleen Dunphy has an informative blog in which she offers advice about painting on location. She recently posted some great recommendations for painting...
Colorado Gallery Supports Painting Trip
Shaun Horne of the Oh-Be-Joyful Gallery made arrangements for several plein air painters to have the use of a rental property in Telluride, Colorado,...
Plein Air Begins in Maui
What more ideal painting location could there be for the first big invitational plein air event of 2013 than the Hawaiian island of Maui?...
Colorado Artists Enjoy Winter Paint-Out
During a recent paint-out, Lorenzo Chavez was the special guest of both the Plein Air Artists of Colorado (PAAC) and the Pastel Society of...
New Plein Air Venue in Florida
The new Academic Village in Seaside, Florida, is developing an educational program that will include plein air workshops, events, and painting opportunities. Find out...
Paint in Private Gardens in Charlotte, NC
All serious plein air painters are invited to participate in the Charlotte, North Carolina Garden Club’s 59th Annual Mint Museum Garden Tour. If you...
Being a “Color Interaction” Painter
Virginia artist Ron Boehmer builds layers of saturated oil colors to achieve luminosity in both his plein air and studio paintings. He offers a...
Degas’ Studies from Life
For several successive evenings in January 1879, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) made graphite drawings and pastel paintings during performances by a famous aerialist known as...
The Private Edgar Degas in Colorado
Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO will present an extraordinary exhibition of drawings, prints, and photographs by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) from April 6 through...
The Man Show in California
Some of the talented California women and men who participate in plein air events will display their figurative paintings in The Man Show in...
Join a Gathering of Artists and Farmers
The Fields Project, in Oregon, Illinois, is one of the most unusual art-related events that includes plein air painting and an outdoor show and...
83rd Annual Landscape Competition
The first Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Exhibition was held in 1928. This year, the competition and exhibition will maintain the same high standards...
“Momentous Change” for Laguna Plein Air Invitational
Greg Vail recently alerted members of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, of which he is president, of the “momentous change” brought on by...
Meet the Florida Light Chasers
The Light Chasers is a plein air painting group that serves four counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The group has almost 400...
Erik Koeppel’s Amazing Paintings
Collectors and artists who have discovered the stunning landscapes Erik Koeppel creates using techniques he describes in his instructional DVD, Techniques of the Hudson...
The Demands of Kids, Weather & Painting
As a busy professional artist and mother of two small children, Californian Kim VanDerHoek knows that any attempt to paint during a family outing...
Free Painting Instruction Book
New Zealand artist Richard Robinson will again be joining the Plein Air Convention & Expo; the 2nd annual convention is set for Monterey, California,...
Darrell Hill (1941-2013)
Shortly after the March 2013 issue of PleinAir went to press and subscribers were reading the article about collectors who treasure his paintings, we...