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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.
8th Annual PleinAir Salon Winners Revealed!
Help us congratulate the winners of the 8th Annual PleinAir Salon! The Salon results were recently announced live at the Plein Air Convention & Expo. Who won?
Call for Entries: Plein Air Grand Marais
This event has a 16-year tradition of bringing outdoor painters to the North Shore of Lake Superior for a week of painting, competition, learning, and camaraderie.
Results from Lighthouse Plein Air Festival
Enjoy photos from the 6th Annual Plein Air Festival at the Lighthouse ArtCenter Gallery and School of Art.
October-November 2018 PleinAir Salon Winners Revealed
Patricia Terwilliger, of Jones & Terwilliger Galleries, has revealed her selections for the winners in the PleinAir Salon bi-monthly art competition.
Door County Plein Air Festival: Winners Announced
Festival judge and artist CW Mundy tells us, “All works were judged based on the foundational truths of the science of painting — drawing, design, value, color, edges, paint manipulation, with variety and unity in each of those disciplines.”
LPAPA Best of Plein Air Winners
View the five award-winning works from the 14th Annual “Best of Plein Air” exhibition. Do you know any of the winners?
PleinAir Salon: Celebrating the Grand Prize Winner
The winner of this year’s Plein Air Salon says he enters his paintings in art competitions for these two reasons.
Painting in Cold Temps, Changing Light
Carl Bretzke painted his PleinAir Salon winning painting in Minneapolis. Luckily the temperatures were hovering just above freezing.
’twas the Season for Salon Victory
Did you or your friends win? The latest bi-monthly winners of the PleinAir Salon, selected by Scott Shields, were revealed in December! Find out here who took home awards and is in the running for the $15,000 Grand Prize.
Yee-haw! Plein Air Texas Winners
The meteoric rise of EnPleinAirTEXAS has been something to behold. 2017 was the event’s fourth year, and it has already become one of the most well-attended and sought-out painting competitions in the United States. Featuring 34 of the nation’s top outdoor painters in 2017 — find out here who rounded up honors and lassoed awards.
Invitational Shines on Laguna Beach
The 19th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational was another resounding success. Each year, the event showcases the nation’s top plein air landscape painters, who compete for more than $30,000 in cash prizes. Who grabbed awards last weekend? Find out here.
Minnesota Nice
Plein Air Grand Marais, a Minnesota event that just wrapped up its awards presentation in the picturesque area along the North Shore of Lake Superior, is one of the premier plein air opportunities in the Midwest, continually drawing the region’s best artistic talent. Who captured glory in 2017?
Industry and Plein Air in America
Works by 30 of the most accomplished artists from the Plein Air Painters of America have been curated into a breathtaking exhibition that focuses on urban sprawl and industrial blight. Any fan of fine art or plein air brilliant can’t miss this!
If You Open It, Paintings Will Come
That’s what gallery owner Ralph Papa and Shawn Escott are experiencing in Boca Raton, Florida, as their newly opened gallery features works by many of the nation’s top outdoor painters.
Plein Air Smackdown
Recently, PleinAir Today detailed a vibrant invitational exhibition at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis that was organized in conjunction with this past weekend’s “Plein Air Smackdown.” Even with scattered showers skirting the area, artists ventured out to paint, eventually enjoying laughs, libations, and sales.
Summer Days at Door
The weather was perfect, the crowds were thick, and the paintings were — well, you’ll just have to see for yourself. This may have been the best Door County Plein Air Festival ever — and I missed it! Not to worry if you did too, because the hot-off-the-press results are right here.
Invitational Illuminates the Twin Cities
Seventeen regional artists from around the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, are currently showcasing a vibrant display of plein air paintings during this selling invitational. Where can it be found?
Plein Air: Work, Play, or Both?
There are many plein air artists who simply don’t have the luxury of painting full-time and, as a result, keep other employment to make ends meet. Be that as it may, I would venture to guess that there are also many who find themselves in a situation where painting and profession aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. Details here.
Artists Announced for EnPleinAirTEXAS
It’s quickly becoming one of the most sought-after plein air events in the country. Some could argue it’s already there. Organizers of EnPleinAirTEXAS recently revealed their competition and invited artists for 2017. Who made the list?