Because Even Painting Websites Need Cat Photos
This photo by Jim Leland proves it: Plein air painting is attracting an increasingly diverse audience. The picture was taken at...
Beware the Plastic Cougar
A slightly larger and less animated cat "threatened" Peter Adams, the president of the California Arts Club. Adams encountered a mountain...
Clucking in Approval
Cats aren't the only critters who appreciate art instruction. It seems that artist Michael Chesley Johnson was a hit among the hens last week...
Plein Air Painting in Bucks County
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the area that inspired American Impressionists such as Daniel Garber, Edward Redfield, and William Lathrop, continues its tradition of fostering the...
Sold-Out Plein Air Convention Returns With Deal for Early Birds
April's Plein Air Convention & Expo, held in Monterey, California, sold out and was the subject of almost embarrassingly effusive praise after the event....
Deadline Near for Paint the Poudre Plein Air Competition
A 10-day plein air painting competition to benefit and protect the scenic Cache La Poudre River, in Northern Colorado, will be held July 1...
SCAPE Calls for Artists
SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment) is hosting a paint-out in Santa Barbara on May 11 and a subsequent "Ingathering" of artwork...
Plein Air Luminaries Gather in Laguna Beach
On April 27, the Autry Museum and John Geraghty teamed up with the California Art Club to present their Annual Plein Air Paint Out...
Sandra Hildreth: “The Wild, Wild West”
Sandra Hildreth, an artist from Saranac Lake, New York, is currently the subject of a solo show at the Adirondack Artists Guild, in Saranac...
Plein Air Painting 70 Years Ago
Carolyn Karch, a painter based in Nevada, recently posted this photo on Facebook of her now 90-year-old mother, Dorothy Kellner, at the Oxbow School...
Joseph McGurl Wins PleinAir Magazine Award From Art Renewal Center
Artist Joseph McGurl won the PleinAir Magazine Award in the 2012-2013 Art Renewal Center Salon for his painting "Twilight From the Palisades." The award...
Painting What Frederic Edwin Church Saw
Artists who live in New York's Columbia County are blessed with a local organization that supports their work and creates opportunities for them --...
Meeting Artists & Sharing 35 Years of Experience
PleinAir Editor Steve Doherty turned over the weekly PleinAir Today e-newsletter to the capable hands of Bob Bahr, and now he has more time...
200 Artists Paint Spring in SW Indiana
More than $7,000 in prizes were awarded recently at the First Brush of Spring plein air event in New Harmony, Indiana. Sponsored by the...
Florida Plein Air Event Shows How to Bring an Event Alive Online
Reports from the Winter Park Paint Out, a plein air event sponsored by the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park, Florida,...
Use Social Media Smartly and Efficiently
Attendees of the 2013 Plein Air Convention & Expo last month benefited from several substantial presentations, including a talk given by painter Ed Terpening...
Who Do You Recognize in These PACE 2013 Photos?
There was so much going on at the 2013 Plein Air Convention & Expo, held April 10 through 14 in Monterey, California, that even...
Teaching Studios Plein Air Competition Announced
For the third year, the Teaching Studios of Art, located in Brooklyn and in Oyster Bay, New York, is hosting a plein air painting...
Lifetime Achievement Awards Presented
During the Plein Air Convention & Expo, two artists received special recognition for their remarkable careers and their efforts to advance the cause of...
Kayaker Saves Brush, Artist Relieved
Watercolorist Michael Reardon recently recounted an episode in plein air painting on his Facebook page. "Sunday's plein air effort on San...