UC Santa Cruz fourth year student Poppy Blu Chambers paints near the UCSC East Field during a session of UC Santa Cruz assistant teaching professor Grant Whipple’s Outdoor Painter’s Project class. The ...

In February, the Sarasota artist published his book, “Light and Color in the Watercolor Landscape: Essential Principles and ...

“Oahu Market” by Island Plein Air Artist Mark Brown, at his exhibit of Chinatown Plein Air works in the Louis Pohl Gallery. The French term “plein air” refers to drawing and painting outdoors. It’s ...

Art has always been shaped by the evolving relationship between creative vision and technology. Today, artists eagerly line up for the latest iPad Pro or try out spatial computing headsets like the ...

For costume designer and visual artist Ben Argenta Kress (MFA ’24), plein air painting is “almost like meditation.” Kress is ...

When plein air painters gathered along the Carmel coastline in the nascent 1900s, setting their easels in the sandy loam long before there was a scenic road or paved pathway, and well before the sea ...

CONCORD — Although the title of the show is “Plein Air: Local Artists Paint Martinez,” some of the local artists who appreciate Martinez aren’t residents of the city. Pam McCauley may live in ...

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 ...

Visitors to Crystal Cove State Park can take the beauty, or rather a memory of it, home with them … one that they create. The Crystal Cove Conservancy offers plein air painting classes two days a week ...

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is celebrating the opening of two new collections this weekend with live artist ...

The Plein Air Painters of New Mexico (PAPNM) is a professional association of artists dedicated to the business of preserving and promoting painting “en plein air” – in the open air or outdoors.

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 ...