OPPORTUNITY: PAAC’s National Juried Exhibition
Last year, the Plein Air Artists Colorado doled out $16,000 in prizes at its annual juried exhibition. Folks interested in competing for this year's...
OPPORTUNITY: Gibson’s Landing, British Columbia
Artist Jan Poynter is the host of a yearly paint-out at Gibson’s Landing in Canada’s British Columbia. Entry deadline is August 31.
Lead Image: Artists...
Early Influences: Suzie Greer Baker
Suzie Greer Baker discovered in high school that the sky was the limit.
Lead Image: “Stars,” by Maxfield Parrish, 1926, oil, 35 1/8 x...
Rainy Day Exercise Opens Up Many Possibilities
Josh Adam has sold many California landscape paintings, and he has a reputation in Maine for his marine paintings, but sometimes the rain suggests...
Curious Artist Finds Much in London Parks
Yes, there are some artists who look at a scene and simply see an interesting design and spots of color. But many more find...
Like a Dream
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If it weren’t for a dream Carol Strock Wasson had, she wouldn’t have competed at the recent...
OPPORTUNITY: Inaugural Plein Air Event, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
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Coastal Massachusetts, one of the most inspiring places in America to paint, now has another plein air...
Parting Shot: Multipurpose Umbrella
- Bob Bahr reporting, Editor PleinAir Today -
It's not just for shade anymore.
Lead Image: Jan Norsetter fishes out her runaway painting. Photo by...
Short Stories and Night Scenes
Linden Frederick is planning a solo show in 2017 that incorporates short stories written by noted authors to accompany his plein air and plein air-inspired paintings, at Forum Gallery in New York City.
Adirondacks Paint Camp Is Filling Up
Every year, more than 100 plein air painters gather near the Canada border in the Adirondack Mountains to paint in a collegiate setting, with no pressure and lots of painting on the agenda. It’s the Publisher’s Invitational, and it’s about filled up.
EXHIBITION: Charlie Hunter, in Grafton, VT
Distinctive painter Charlie Hunter has a show at North Star Gallery, in Grafton, Vermont, February 17-19.
OPPORTUNITY: Pop-Up Paint-Out in Santa Cruz, June 2
Thirty artists will gather in Santa Cruz, California, on June 2 to compete for $2,000 and to help raise funds for the Coastal Watershed Council, and you could be one of them.
EXHIBITION: A Plein Air Journal
Although he is perhaps best known as one of the world’s foremost painting conservators, this artist spent his private moments creating poetic, evocative, and luminous plein air studies that compose this lovely show.
OPPORTUNITY: The Chateau Beckons
A group of artists recently returned from a weeklong journey where they took on the enviable task of capturing the Loire Valley in Trôo, France, en plein air. A delightful little photo essay of their adventure is one click away.
Buchs at the “Big Brown Barn”
Founding member of the Wisconsin Plein Air Painters Association and talented painter Thomas Buchs currently has his luminous plein air works on view at the “Big Brown Barn.” With a name like that, how could you miss it?!
Raising the Roof
Pennsylvania artist Julie Riker had the unique opportunity to paint a barn raising and to document the event with her art. This really was history!
An Area Worth Painting
The beautiful Columbia River Gorge is a plein air painter’s dream, which is why the Pacific Northwest Plein Air festival attracts many of the country’s most vaunted artists every year. In 2017, 42 artists scaled cliffs and hiked cavernous trails to capture that perfect vista in hopes of earning the top prize.
EXHIBITION: A Journey Along California’s Coast
The California Art Club (CAC) highlights one of the defining characteristics of the Golden State — its awe-inspiring shoreline — during a must-see exhibition titled “A Journey Along the California Coast,” on view now through...