9 “Backyard” Paintings Inspired By #StayAtHome Art Prompts
You'll love seeing these "backyard paintings" your peers created from our recent series of creative art prompts. Click through to be inspired and delighted.
Spring Blooms and Still Lifes
Have a look at the spring blooms and still lifes your plein air peers created while self-isolating, and be inspired.
A Year of Painting Outdoors in Tahoe
Nathanael Gray spent the past year painting outdoors in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Read about his experience, and be inspired.
How Artists Are Coping with Self-Isolation
As the country slowly begins to open up in different ways, we’re curious - how have you been coping with self-isolation? Here are ways some of your peers have gotten through the past couple of months.
6 Composition Books for Artists
We asked, and you answered! In this roundup, we're sharing your favorite composition books for artists.
Painting Outdoors: Of Rigor and Reward
Artist Michael Orwick shares the poetic side of painting outdoors, which he says is simultaneously meditative and daunting.
Managing Your Mindset During COVID-19
Eric Rhoads interviews Lee Milteer, who shares advice for artists on how to help our mental health and creativity as we navigate COVID-19.
Isolating (and Painting) On the Edge
When Charlie Easton packed up his family and headed West, he grabbed his paint bag and some panels. He’s making a go of ‘isolation’ on an island in the Pacific...
Painting Landscapes: Why the Process Is So Important
Words of advice > Even in those times when you find yourself having to scrape back passages because the marks you previously put down weren’t what you wanted, you can take solace in the fact that it is all part of the process.
For the Love of Nature: Plein Air Magazine
In the new issue of Plein Air Magazine, we celebrate the many ways artists respond to the landscape, presenting us with new ways of seeing and appreciating the world.
Plein Air Prompt: View From Your Window
Create a painting inspired by our creative art prompts, and your art could be featured in Plein Air Today!
Two Approaches to Painting Clouds
In the course of a Sky Paintings Challenge, we saw dozens of different approaches to the subject matter. Two styles of painting clouds were particularly striking, in part because of their contrast to one another. Check out two ways to look at high-altitude water vapor.
How Can We Help?
Now, more than ever, we all are turning to our friends, and so we are writing to remind you that we are your allies.
Painting Outdoors: Inspiration for Life
Moments while painting outdoors can become inspiration for a lifetime of beginning a practice of gratitude, appreciating the “little things” and seeing your palette as half full.
The Ripple Effect of Painting Together
How Georgia Mansur began teaching workshops in Australia, helping to form a new community through the creative arts.
Painting On Location: The Great Wall and the Painted Hall
UK artist Rob Pointon shares his experience of painting outdoors at the Great Wall of China, and on location at the Painted Hall in London.
Making My Best Guess When Painting Landscapes
Plein air painter Michael Chesley Johnson explains his “best guess” process for painting landscapes, and how it inspires a variety of styles that span the centuries.
Artist Michael J. Lynch to Be Honored with PleinAir Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award
“I was extremely surprised and pleased upon learning that I had been selected..." Lynch said. "Considering the great number of artist friends and colleagues who are undoubtedly more deserving of this recognition than I am, I consider it a great honor and am deeply appreciative."
What I’ve Learned About Art
Inspiration for Artists > 75-year-old artist Mike Hoyt shares how he was driven to begin oil painting 25 years ago, why he hasn’t stopped since, and what he has learned along the way.
Painting Mountains and More, in Miniature
Landscape painter Remington Robinson is originally from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, but moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 2004, driven by his desire to paint mountains.