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Your PleinAir Podcast Binge Guide
Each week Eric Rhoads welcomes a new guest to the PleinAir Podcast. Even if you’ve been following this podcast for artists since it began, chances are you may have missed at least one. And if you’re a new listener, we know you won’t want to miss some of the amazing artists that have been featured.
Plein Air Artists to Follow on Instagram
Our team came up with the following list of Instagram accounts for artists — especially plein air artists! — that you’ll love seeing in your feed.
Cool Whisper: A Winter Landscape Painting
“The environment stimulates your senses as you breathe the fresh air, taking in all the sights and sounds; a truly awe inspiring and humbling experience,” says the artist. “My paintings are my personal response to these surroundings…”
Featured Artwork: Natasha Isenhour
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Holbein Certificate of Excellence
Pastel Society of Southern California, Make your Mark, International Online Juried Exhibition
24 x 36 in.
Pastel on hardboard panel
$4,200
Available through Abend Gallery,...
How Your Sketches Can Earn You Money
Does your sketchbook contain the winning work for the next bimonthly PleinAir Salon?
Is That Watercolor?
Help us congratulate Angus McEwan, a recent winner of the bi-monthly PleinAir Salon, and enjoy this exclusive Q&A with the artist, who shares his biggest challenges, his advice for others, and the answer to a common question he hears about his watercolor paintings.
13 Dramatic Paintings of Storms
These artists were driven to brave the elements to commit the scenes directly to their painting surfaces, make quick sketches or studies, or, as circumstances dictated for one, simply to burn the imagery into her memory to serve as inspiration as soon as she got to her easel.
Painting the Future
Discover who won which awards in the recent Outdoor Painters Society’s first Salon Show and Sale for their associate members.
9 Artists Over 65: Still Winning
Today we honor these artists who are still painting, and still winning art competitions. Be inspired.
Your Plein Air Events Guide for September 2019
Looking for a local event next month? Check out these listings of plein air events from the Northeast to the Southwest, and beyond!
Top 16 Unexpected Plein Air Art Supplies
Add some of these unexpected “supplies” to your stash to make painting more convenient, more fun, and perhaps, even more interesting.
3 Secrets to Winning Art Competitions
Time and time again, past winners of the PleinAir Salon tell us that the secret to winning is to ...
The Power of Art to Unite
"We, as artists, have the opportunity to bring this feeling into people's lives though the art we create," says Livingstone. "Art can bring people to a moment of discovery, a moment of awe, a moment of feeling so uplifted and connected to what we are expressing that ...
Featured Artwork: Natasha Isenhour
Path To The Sun
24 x 36 in.
Pastel
Awarded “Best Pastel” in the April/May 2019 Plein Air Salon
“After embarking upon the challenge given to me by...
Why People Are Still Talking About #PACE19
See the works of artists who are still in the afterglow of the 8th Annual Plein Air Convention, and get excited about our next stop: Denver!
First Brush of Spring for Hoosiers
Over 100 artists descended on the Wabash River town in Southwestern Indiana, competing for over $20,000 in prizes and purchase awards.
Plein Air Painting for Dummies
If you’re new to painting outdoors (or know someone who is), take advice from these 11 artists, including the most obvious but overlooked things you should know, and what “plein errors” to avoid.
PleinAir Podcast 124: How Plein Air Painting Influences the Movie Industry
What have top animation artists discovered about color and light that can help painters? Listen as Eric Rhoads interviews artists from Dreamworks and Pixar Animation Studios in a discussion about how plein air influences animation in this PleinAir Podcast.
Featured Artwork: Carl Bretzke
Tracks On River Ice
22 x 40 in.
Oil on linen
2019
Available Through Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
January seemed colder than usual this year. As a result...
2019 Plein Air Convention and Expo: Favorite Moments
Enjoy a recap of some the most popular highlights from this year's PACE - are you or your friends in any of these photos?