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A 260-Mile Plein Air Relay
Is it possible to participate in two distant plein air events in the same week? This ambitious artist pushes the limits to find out. Bonus: Includes a list of tips for your next plein air event!
One Way to Become a Better Artist
If you’ve been dreaming of bringing a looser and more painterly feel to your work, this will be the most important message you read today.
Connecting with Artist Friends Online, en Plein Air
Learn about two inspired women who met at Plein Air Live and have since formed a ...
PleinAir Podcast 212: The Future of the Plein Air Movement
Because of COVID, our world has changed. How will that affect your ability to sell paintings? How will that affect the hundreds of plein air events? Eric Rhoads hosted a webinar with Kelly Kane, Cherie Dawn Haas, and Anne Weiler Brown for this week's podcast.
33 Special Highlights and Bonus Tips from Plein Air Live
Hundreds of artists gathered recently during Streamline's 2nd annual Plein Air Live, where they had front row seats to presentations and demonstrations from today's masters, such as Clyde Aspevig, Dawn Whitelaw, C.W. Mundy, Thomas Jefferson Kitts, Lori Putnam (who got a very special surprise!) and so many more.
PleinAir Podcast 211: Shawn Dell Joyce on Artists Making a Difference
In this episode of the Plein Air Podcast, Eric interviews Shawn Dell Joyce on how artists can help preserve farms and rural areas; how to encourage others to paint outdoors; tips for painting Fall colors; and more!
PleinAir Podcast 210: James Willis on Painting Architecture and More
In this episode of the Plein Air Podcast, Eric interviews British artist James Willis on painting buildings and cityscapes, art history, and more.
Unsticking the Stuck Student
Artist and art industry veteran Terry Stanley has some advice for art instructors who encounter creatively blocked students.
PleinAir Podcast 209: Charles Muench on Artistic Discipline and More
In this episode of the Plein Air Podcast, Eric interviews Charles Muench, who says, "it's live and die with every canvas, live and die with every brush stroke."
PleinAir Podcast 208: Mike Hernandez on Channeling Fear and More
In this episode of the Plein Air Podcast, Eric Rhoads interviews plein air painter and former production designer for DreamWorks Animation Mike Hernandez. Mike shares how he learned to channel his fear into creative energy and the related near-death experience that left him thinking, "What am I doing? I wanted to be an artist." This story will have your palms sweating.
PleinAir Podcast 207: Ben Bauer’s Leap to Becoming a Full-Time Artist
In this episode Eric interviews contemporary American landscape painter Ben Bauer, who recently left his job to become a full-time artist. They discuss this, as well as key essentials to know about art materials; how painting in plein air changed his work; tips on composition; and more.
PleinAir Podcast 206: Watercolor Artist Tom Lynch on Building an Art Career and More
In this episode of the Plein Air Podcast, Eric interviews watercolor artist Tom Lynch; listen and learn how to build a career and make a successful living from someone who has done both.
Plein Air Painting and the Need for Speed
Do you feel pressured to paint faster when en plein air? If you're tempted to practice the "smash and grab" technique, you might want to think twice. Here's why.
PleinAir Podcast 205: John Coleman on Artist Success and More
In this episode of the Plein Air Podcast, Eric interviews Western artist John Coleman, who shares what, to him (and to many successful artists), is the scariest thing in the world - it's not what you think.
PleinAir Podcast 204: John Michael Carter on Painting Composition and More
In this episode of the Plein Air Podcast, Eric interviews plein air and studio painter John Michael Carter on realism in art, the process of learning and finding one's voice, and painting elements such as composition and focal points, and more.
Special Highlights and Bonus Tips from Watercolor Live
Artists from Texas to Tanzania, Scotland, Thailand, and beyond (40 countries represented in total), participated in Watercolor Live. See what you missed or relive favorite moments in this recap.
PleinAir Podcast 203: Representational Landscape Painter Garin Baker
New! The PleinAir Podcast with Eric Rhoads is the #1 rated painting podcast in the world via Feedspot's 2021 list! In this episode Eric interviews Garin Baker, a traditional representational painter and instructor at the Art Students League of New York.
PleinAir Podcast 202: From the Art Dealer Diaries, Part 2
In this second half of Eric's interview on the Art Dealer Diaries Podcast with Mark Sublette, Eric shares his interesting path to publishing and how Plein Air grew into a convention, Salon, and more. Listen and be inspired as he talks about the importance of doing what you love.
PleinAir Podcast 201: From the Art Dealer Diaries, Part 1
In this special edition, listen to an interview with Mark Sublette of the Art Dealers Diaries podcast as he interviews Eric Rhoads about his path from the radio business to art, how he keeps up with his daily live videos with other artists, and much more.
PleinAir Podcast 200: Randall Sexton on Seeing Color and More
In this episode of the PleinAir Podcast, Eric interviews artist Randall Sexton, who goes into why he has been experimenting with abstract art and how his approach has changed over the years, as well as thoughts on seeing color, painting greens, what happened when he added black to his palette, his art "confession," and much more.