Artist Spotlight: LAUREL DANIEL
How do you find inspiration?
Laurel Daniel: Ever inspired by big skies and dramatic cloud dances, Laurel Daniel’s new work offers further insight into her...
Artist Spotlight: Lee MacLeod
How do you find inspiration?
Lee MacLeod: As a landscape painter who gravitates to painting clouds, I live in the perfect place to find inspiration....
Artist Spotlight: Lynn Dunbar Bayus
How did you get started and then develop your career?
Lynn Dunbar Bayus: I was in advertising for 10 years and thought I’d go back...
Artist Spotlight: Marc Anderson
How did you get started and then develop your career?
Marc Anderson: I got my “professional” start as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator. I’d been...
It’s a Beach Thing
A Plein Air Today Reader Spotlight on ... Emily Neel
Artist Spotlight: Kathleen Gray Farthing
How did you get started and then develop your career?
Kathleen Gray Farthing: While out painting, the question I am most often asked is, “How...
Better With Time
Elements of wear and tear in Mat Barber Kennedy’s textural watercolors show signs of life and how we live it.
Artist Spotlight: Barb Walker
Barb Walker: Confession. I don’t always draw in preparation for a painting. Actually, almost never unless the light is so fleeting that a quick...
A Day in the Life of … Mary Garrish
What's it like to be a pro artist who lives and works from an RV? Mary Garrish takes us a day-in-the-life plein air painting tour to find out.
Artist Spotlight: David Marty
How did you get started and then develop your career?
David Marty: I was an art major in college but went into graphic design to...
Artist Spotlight: Tina Bohlman
How did you get started and then develop your career?
Tina Bohlman: My mom & great grandmother were both gifted artists and luckily some of...
Artist Spotlight: Theodore Heublein
How do you find inspiration?
Theodore Heublein: I am the first to paint underwater in the kelp beds of the Monterey area and Point Lobos...
Plein Air Watercolors with a Western Flair
Drawn to rural, gritty, and seemingly mundane subjects, Tim Oliver loves the authenticity, immediacy, and raw honesty of painting watercolors en plein air.
Artist Spotlight: Anne Blair Brown
What inspires you?
Anne Blair Brown: I find inspiration everywhere. I do not necessarily paint “things”, but rather I focus on light, atmosphere, and color....
A Volunteer with a Big Heart
In addition to painting beautiful landscapes that document a moment in time, plein air painters are out there making a big difference for individuals in many ways.
Artist Spotlight: Keary Kautzer
Where do you find inspiration for painting?
Keary Kautzer: I find inspiration to do a painting from just about everywhere. It could be some flowers...
Adventures in Pure Color with Pastels
Molly Lipsher finds pastel the perfect medium for capturing the light, colors, and textures of the Western landscape.
Pastel Live Artist Receives Eminent Pastelist Designation
Congratulations to this pastelist, whose main focus is painting landcapes both en plein air and in the studio.
Artist Spotlight: Michele Byrne
How do you find inspiration?
Michele Byrne: Two years ago I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Here everything inspires me and I feel like...
Q&A With Nigerian Artist Edak Young
In a land where plein air painting is an unusual site, this artist is breaking multiple barriers.