Fleeting Moments: Plein Air Watercolor
Working quickly and directly, Joseph Zbukvic exploits all the qualities that make plein air painting with watercolor so unique.
Vantage Points: Part 1
There is something elemental and powerful about responding directly to nature. Ken Knight shares his approach to plein air painting.
Women Artists: From Competition to Compensation, and Everything in Between
What does it mean to be a woman in plein air? Brienne Brown shares her experiences in this article excerpt from Plein Air Magazine (April/May 2020)
Painting the Grand Canyon en Plein Air: An Interview with Amery Bohling
Amery Bohling explains the importance (and joys) of working from life, composing a scene, creating scale, and more.
Artist Spotlight: Nancie King Mertz
Master & Eminent Pastelist Nancie King Mertz finds that light and shadow are the elements that “take her breath.”
Artist Spotlight: Jennifer Riefenberg
Artist Jennifer Riefenberg is constantly reaching beyond her own boundaries on the eternal road to improvement and understanding of art in all forms.
A Day in the Life of Mark Shasha
American artist, author, and educator Mark Shasha shows that there's more to being an artist than you might think.
Artist Spotlight: Carol Strock Wasson
For Carol Strock Wasson, painting outdoors became a way of life, and she learned successful painting is no accident — its years of learning, painting, and connections with other artists.
Not Idle in Winter: Stewart White and Plein Air Watercolor
During the cold winter months it becomes a challenge to paint en plein air with watercolor. It's not impossible, but it takes a little more effort than usual and water crystalizes very quickly in sub-freezing weather - not to mention that the fingers and toes aren't too happy...
Artist Spotlight: Barbara Coleman
Barbara Coleman traces her fine art career back to a startling moment in Rome when she was ten and shares how she then developed her career.
Artist Spotlight: Lee MacLeod
Lee MacLeod started out in the art world as an illustrator working on movie posters, book covers and game art before turning his attention to fine art.
Artist Spotlight: Mary McIntosh
After retirement in the film industry as a Set Decorator for some 42 years on the west coast, Mary was able to return to her first love of drawing and painting.
Artist Spotlight: Kami Mendlik
In the beginning, artist Kami Mendlik didn’t think of painting as her career, she just knew she needed to paint.
Artist Spotlight: Nancy Silvia
For pastel artist Nancy Silvia, she doesn’t consider what she does a “career,” but her life’s journey.
Artist Spotlight: Robert Green
Robert Green is a painter of the Alaskan Adventure. The day after he retired, he launched his "retirement career" as an artist.
Artist Spotlight: Barb Walker
Workshops, videos, painting with other painters, and countless hours looking at paintings in galleries and museums have been this artist’s never-ending education.
Artist Spotlight: Brienne M. Brown
For artist Brienne M. Brown, she made art a priority in her life, and instead of trying to find the time; she started to make the time to paint.
A Scene Worth Its Salt
Malta painter Andrew Borg found beauty in a historical salt manufacturing compound. He explains his process and the site’s history here.
Making an Impression
Striving to evoke an emotional response to the beauty in the everyday, this Georgia-based painter imbues her representational pastels with an impressionist flair.
Artist Spotlight: Marc Anderson
Where did this artist get his start? As an art student in college, Marc got a summer job drawing caricatures at an amusement park and eventually drawing at county fairs around the Midwest.