Parting Shot: What Rain?
Jeffrey Baumgartner, whom some of you may know from the Publisher's Invitational Paint Out and others may know from his acting turns in Shakespearean...
Painting to Preserve the Landscape
Three Wyoming artists are part of the growing movement to use plein air painting to help raise awareness and funds to preserve undeveloped land....
Easton, By the Numbers
The dust is settling after another great year of plein air painting at Plein Air-Easton! in Easton, Maryland, and here's the skinny. ...
Winners in the Rockies
The Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters recently presented their 2013 awards at a show at the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Jackson...
Joy on the Garden Tour
What's the hospitality for artists like in the Highlands portion of North Carolina? Ask the plein air painters who were guests this year of...
Painting a 2-inch Plein Air?
Thomas Wood filled a gallery with plein air work this year, and the results were quite a handful. For this show, Wood was required...
Plein Air–Easton Winners Announced
Judge Don Demers chose the following winners from the 116 paintings submitted by 58 artists at Plein Air--Easton! last weekend in Easton, Maryland. ...
Why This Works: “Spring Renewal”
In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and points out why they...
Painter Picks Plan B
The postcard view is often not the best one for a painting. Just ask Julia Seelos. The Redwood City, California, painter...
Last Call: American Vistas Competition
The Missouri Valley Impressionist Society reminds artists that August 1 is the deadline to enter "American Vistas," a landscape exhibition slated for the Buttonwood...
Last Call: Inaugural Plein Air Shorewood Event
August 1 is the deadline to register for the first annual Plein Air Shorewood event, scheduled for Sept. 19 through 21 in Milwaukee. ...
How to Talk to Artists
Marie Vlasic wrote a blog post about the things people should and shouldn't say to artists at an art fair, and the response has...
Peggi Kroll-Roberts on Lois Dodd
We don't always have room to include all the great information we get in artist interviews, but online we can make sure these nuggets...
Parting Shot: Bruce Katz in Sonoma
San Francisco painter Bruce Katz saw a house on a hill in Sonoma County and painted it from afar, with good results. ...
Winning a $20,000 Fellowship
Tom Nachreiner was busy when the news was announced that he had won the 22nd National Exhibition Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern Artists...
Painting the Figure Outdoors With Bellerose
Patricia Bellerose was the overall winner in PleinAir magazine's April/May Salon contest for a piece that also won Best Floral -- but she doesn't...
Prather Takes Top Prize in Santa Fe
Jeanne Mackenzie gave the Best of Show award to Richard Prather for his painting "Caja del Rio Canyon" recently at Plein Air Santa Fe....
Events and Winners at Crooked Tree
The Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey, Michigan, recently hosted two notable events, and awarded thousands of dollars in prizes. Who won the $3,000...
Gallery Spotlight: Mockingbird Gallery
This Central Oregon gallery promotes its plein air artists in a very logical way. The interior of Mockingbird Gallery, in Bend,...
Useful Website: Kathleen Dunphy Fine Art
Kathleen Dunphy is not exceedingly diligent about "feeding the beast" -- her blog will be updated several times one month, then she may take...