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Learn about the next plein air retreat hosted by the Federation of Canadian Artists.

Featured Artwork: Chuck Kovacic Celebration 18 x 24 in. Oil, plein air After acquiring a BFA in graphic design with a minor in painting from the Cleveland Institute...

Read about Gifford’s “The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine” plein air painting in this nod to art history.

What does a top award winner anticipate as he begins a new plein air season? Maryland artist Tim Kelly reveals his expectations for 2018.

During her presentation at the Plein Air Convention & Expo, Tennessee artist Kathie Odom will reveal that she has been fortunate to find spiritual and personal support as her career skyrocketed to higher levels. What will she recommend to artists in Santa Fe?

Over the past 25 years, David E. Dallison has taken his portable watercolor equipment to more than 35 countries, sometimes ignoring travel warnings and political unrest. He is now being a bit more cautious since he is traveling with his young family. Here’s how he works with watercolors in distant locations. 

PleinAir Magazine ushers in a new chapter, welcoming Kelly Kane as its next Editor-in-Chief. The former content director of The Artist’s Magazine and longtime editor of Watercolor Artist will take over when M. Stephen Doherty retires in January.

On my way home from the Chicago area recently, I got to thinking about the importance of attending an exhibition even if you have not received notification of an award or, in the case of a juried exhibition, going to the opening reception even if your work wasn’t accepted.

“End of the Season” 8 x 10 in Oil Available from the artist. An artist and adventurer her entire life, Debra Howard now resides in Crisfeld, MD, gateway...

“Waiting For You” Original Oil on Panel Available “Waiting For You” was first painted en plein air as a 6 x 8 during the 2017 Paradise...

There is a “rush” that comes from painting in front of your subject, whether it is a figure, still life or the outdoors landscape/seascape that one cannot experience in the studio. While I love the experience en plein air, I do most of my larger seascape and landscape paintings in the studio.

If you’re around town in Fort Collins, Colorado, this week/weekend you might want to stop by the Carnegie Building on Matthews Street for a brilliant display of local plein air magic.

Hosted between November 7-12, Paint the Beach in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, is — naturally — a fantastic fall opportunity for a plein air showdown. All told, the sunny skies and range of artistic talent left judge Vladislav Yelisleyev with tough decisions. Which artists had an early Thanksgiving feast?

“GAF on Ponca” 36 x 72 in Watercolor on paper Available at Y:ART Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland  $7000 National award-winning, watercolor artist Ken Karlic describes his work as...

Registration opened on October 2 for the annual Plein Air Southwest Competition & Show, featuring more than $25,000 in awards. However, the deadline for entry looms. . .

Every year since 2005 an intrepid crew of artists come together from all over California, and beyond, to trek the High Sierras, be inspired, and paint. In the first major installation of 2018, the Harrington Gallery at the Firehouse Arts Center will present “Granite Group: Plein Air Paintings of the High Sierras.” The exhibition opens...

American Legacy Fine Arts in Pasadena, California, recently opened a splendid exhibition of plein air works by some of the most collected and celebrated painters in the United States. Who’s included? Find out here.

More than 100 masterworks consisting of paintings, drawings, pastels, etchings, monotypes, and sculptures in bronze by this prolific French Impressionist head to the galleries of this renowned institution in February. Mark your calendars!

Professional artist and software engineering manager at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon: Over the past several years, Karen Doyle has worked to juggle these two seemingly opposed career paths, spending her vacation time at plein air painting events or workshops, and painting several evenings a week from life in her home studio. Recently, however, she had the opportunity to completely mix and mash the two when she helped to bring plein air painting and an art exhibit to life at Nike, Inc.

Exuberant color and painterly interpretations of place and moment fill Rodger Bechtold’s Wisconsin landscapes. Based on direct observation, recollection, and some invention, Bechtold’s paintings illustrate the grandeur in the everyday. Where can you see his latest?