Painting outdoors with 360-degree views, plein air artists have access to an infinite source of subject matter from which to draw inspiration. Every once in a while, however, the tables turn, and they find themselves providing inspiration for someone else. The artists whose work is featured here show us what happens when the painter becomes the painted.
“I painted [“Freezing Cold and Raining”] during the Chadds Ford Historical Society’s annual winter plein air event in February 2019 at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania,” says Annie Strack. “The artist in the painting is Yvonne Mucci of New Jersey. Yvonne and I are painting buddies and often meet up at events. We live only about 30 miles apart from each other, but the first time we met was at an event in Wisconsin, and we’ve been painting buddies ever since.”
When the Tables Have Turned: Plein Air Paintings of Painters
Annie Strack
2019, watercolor, 12 x 6 in.
Available from artist
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Krystal W. Brown
2021, oil, 14 x 11 in.
Available from artist
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Neil Sherman
2014, oil, 12 x 9 in.
Collection the artist
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Barb Walker
2020, oil, 8 x 10 in.
Available from artist
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Jill Stefani Wagner
2017, oil, 10 x 8 in.
Private collection
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Julie Riker
2019, oil, 12 x 9 in.
Available from artist
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Blog post prepared for the web by Cherie Dawn Haas, Editor of Plein Air Today
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