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How You Stack Up Against the Best of Your Peers
The PleinAir Salon is quickly becoming the place where the best painters are putting their best paintings next to one another to gauge their...
Plein Air Painting Catching Fire in Jackson, Wyoming
The Teton Plein Air Painters, an informal organization that grew from a few friends to more than 60 painters in a little more than...
Plein Air Painting Gets a Star Turn on TV in Minnesota
Public television continues to shine the spotlight on plein air painting. Last week, Lakeland Public Television, a partnership of two TV stations in Minnesota,...
Painting the View Out Your Front Door
Greg Summers isn't thrilled with the view out his front door, but he recognizes a truth: Artists can find the beauty in anything. He's...
How to Paint in Jerusalem
Sergei Kurbatov traveled from his home in Russia to Israel and found that the medium of watercolor let him focus on specific elements, while...
Colorado Plein Air Awards Winners
The Colorado Plein Air event wrapped up last week with juror Carolyn "Charlie" Bogusz (vice president and general manager of PleinAir magazine) choosing two...
Up Close: Debra Joyce Dawson at Markay Cultural Arts Center
Debra Joyce Dawson's solo show at the Markay Cultural Arts Center in Jackson, Ohio, features scenes drawn from trips out West, in Ohio, over...
Painting Texas’s Beautiful Hill Country
The weather has cooled off a bit in Texas, and members of Oil Painters of America and other artists will be taking advantage of...
Painting on “the Roof of the World”
Artists participating in the Plein Air Painters group on Facebook have been enjoying the updates coming in from outdoor painters from all over the...
Patrons Decided on Awards in Bath County, VA
Members of the public voted for three of the awards presented during the 1st Annual Bath County Plein Air Festival, in Warm Springs, Virginia....
Mendocino Loves Various Media
Most plein air events don't differentiate among media, or they show a bias toward oils. Not so in Mendocino, California. The Medocino Open Paint...
De-Modernizing a Castle
Some people may see a tourist stop; an artist will see a fine pastoral scene. Egon Miklavcic told us about his process and the...
Why You Should Take an iPad Into the Field
Many plein air artists have one simple reaction to digital art: horror. Here's why they may be wrong.
An application on an iPad or similar...
Celebrated Painter Judges Show in Vermont
A First Place award can make an artist feel good, and it looks good on a resume. But it's even better when an internationally...
Big Payoffs in Rockies Competition
With a top prize valued at more than $4,000, the Plein Air Rockies 2013 Competition attracted some strong painters. Who went home with awards?...
Which Paint-Spattered Artist Pulls in Big Win in ADK?
Anyone who knows this artist would recognize his multi-colored, much-spattered painting apron ... and the wearer won the top prize at the Adirondack Plein...
Artists Gather in Napa Valley for Sales Event
Yountville, California, was the host of the Napa Valley Art Festival, a grass-roots event that bestows Artists' Choice and People's Choice awards to talented...
Why This Works: “Frankly Speaking, Yackandandah”
In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and points out why they...
Georgia O’Keeffe Paints the Adirondacks
By many accounts, Georgia O'Keeffe painted, sketched, and drew outdoors frequently and in sometimes rough country. And she spent one of the most prolific...
Picturesque Painting on a Texas Barrier Island
North of Padre Island, on Texas's Gulf Coast, is a long barrier island named Mustang, and on it is a town of 4,000 people...