There are hundreds of methods of creating a fine art painting, and one of them is called “plein air painting”, which is simply a French term meaning “painting outdoors on location”. Most ...

Natalia Andreeva's image of a 100-year-old red barn is the cover image for this year’s second annual plein air event which will take place from May 19 to May 21, 2022, in Havana. Nestled in the trunk ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

In early 1860s France, four young art students discovered they shared an infatuation for painting landscapes and contemporary life. Together they would visit the local countryside, pull out their ...

A painting by Sandy Hall, a Greenfield artist and retired art teacher. Hall is the guest artist at the Southside Art League in October, showing a collection of paintings in the Off Broadway Gallery.

Among the Roaring Fork Valley’s robust festival lineup, a particular art form has been missing: plein air painting — which simply means painting outdoors, but there’s nothing simple about it. Snowmass ...

On a piece of rocky ground at the base of a steep bank along the mist-shrouded Little River, oil painter Olena Babak sets up her easel. It’s late in the day to be starting a new piece—less than three ...

The air is crisp, the October sun is still warm, and the vibrant colors of the trees are breathtaking. For local artists painting outside — or “en plein air” — this is a time to embrace and celebrate ...

TRAVERSE CITY — This August marks Crooked Tree Arts Center’s fifth Paint Grand Traverse — the annual plein air affair that draws artists and art appreciators to the Grand Traverse region from around ...

When artist Nikolay Mikushkin emigrated from Kazakhstan to the United States with his wife in October 1996, they chose a location they thought would have four seasons: New York City. “In November, we ...