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Report From Cuba: Inspiration and Color Around Every Corner
Southern California artist Anette Power came back from the Paint Cuba! Publisher’s Invitational trip with a few thoughts on visiting the formerly forbidden Caribbean...
Why This Works: Less is More … and Elegant
- Jeanne Mackenzie reporting -
In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and...
Why This Works: White in Shadow
Jeanne Mackenzie reporting
In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and points out...
Painting Florida in All Its Variety
Florida artist Sharon Osterholt decided she would spend 2015 visiting and painting every state park in the Sunshine State. Here's what she discovered.
Lead...
Running a Workshop: Part III — Execution
This is the last in a three-part series in which Cindy Briggs and Theresa Goesling share their expertise on running painting workshops. In the...
Painting a Manicured Landscape – Golf Courses
Yes, golf courses are heavily manipulated landscapes, but they also are catnip for artists. “They seem to have unique features,” points out painter R....
Anatomy of an Award Winner: Shelby Keefe
Shelby Keefe stalked this scene, and it paid off. But the pressure was on....
EnPleinAir TEXAS is relatively new on the plein air circuit, but...
Who Doesn’t Win in the Caribbean?
One could argue that if you are plein air painting in Bermuda in November, you have already won. But a few artists took it...
Art as Grand as the Grand Canyon at 2015 Celebration of Art
Artists are drawn to the Grand Canyon, and each year the Grand Canyon Association holds a plein air painting event that picks the best...
Strength (and Fun) in Numbers
In Port Clyde, Maine, an artist has put together a yearly summer getaway for painting friends that seems to be reaching critical mass. How...
What 100 Artists Did Online in Three Days
Jane Bell Meyer orchestrated 100 artists posting three videos a day for three days, chronicling their plein air work. It was the second year...
Winners at Camp Hill, Penn.
The Plein Air Camp Hill Arts Festival drew 62 painters from eight states and the Dominican Republic to the fifth edition of the event...
Learning How to Paint, Again (For the First Time)
After years of painting, with sales and some success, Lennie Mullaney was told that she "had no idea how to paint." It was strong...
Four Views of a Secret
Focusing on a landscape that is undoubtedly one of America's treasures, the work of four artists gathered in one exhibition showcases Maine's spectacular coast....
My Favorite Place to Paint: Mark Mehaffey
"Something should be most of a painting." That's what Mark Mehaffey says, and he says that while considering the landscape around his home in...
McGurl on Past Masters: Andrew Wyeth
In this series, noted painter Joseph McGurl discusses plein air paintings by past masters that he finds instructive or inspiring. This week: "Benjamin's House,"...
OPPORTUNITY: Paint Private Gardens in Charlotte, North Carolina
Those wishing to paint the spring blooms in some of Charlotte, North Carolina's finest private gardens will need to get their applications ready in...
Spotlight on PACE Faculty: John P. Lasater IV
What's the big deal about painting a nocturne? You just have to figure out how to get some light, right? John P. Lasater IV...
EXHIBITION: “Mark Kerckhoff,” in Santa Barbara
Pen-and-ink outlines that he usually paints beyond -- Mark Kerckhoff's process is governed by experimentation in that and other ways.
Now through March 11, "Mark...
My Favorite Place to Paint: Carol Smith Myer
It's called Rush Creek, but it's more of a wetlands area, with an estimated 196 species of birds enjoying the nature preserve's 522 acres...