A band of nomads is dropping by the Main Line in what has become a yearly visitation. The 30 plein-air (“open air”) painters arriving Sunday for the 7th Annual Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival hail ...

The first time I saw plein air painters doing their thing near Traverse City, we were cycling the Leelanau Peninsula and were taking a break at picturesque Fishtown. A dozen painters had easels set up ...

Grand Exhibition and Quick Draw Contest highlight this year’s Easels in Frederick plein-air event Frederick County’s picturesque historic towns, agrarian landscapes and mountain scenes will be ...

There are challenges to painting 'plein air' any time of the year, but especially the autumn months. Yes, there are brilliant fall colors, but... Oct 21, 2020 — There are challenges to painting 'plein ...

The 19th century was the great age of plein-air landscape painting, when artists left their studios and took to the outdoors to capture not a romanticized ­vision of nature but the real thing. To help ...

PORT ANGELES — Gretha Lindwood’s not usually a coffee drinker, but she sips when she paints. The caffeine keeps her gloved, pastel-powdery hands busy. By now, the Portland, Ore., painter knows what ...

Paint the town! Local artists registered in the Denver Plein Air Arts Fest have been taking their talents to the streets — and the foothills — painting locations around town.The artists “set up an ...

After a morning of plein air painting, retired engineer Walter Pasko, 86, packs up his handmade portable easel and tool box in downtown West Stockbridge. Pasko, who lives in Lanesborough, is a member ...

The changing leaves ebbed and flowed in the wind as the sun shone down on the many painters participating in the 7th Annual Paint It Orange Plein Air Paint-Out, taking place Oct. 4-6, across Orange ...

Mount Dora Center for the Arts will host a Plein Air Paint Out from Nov. 10 to 16. Artists will set up their easels around Mount Dora as they paint nature, buildings and people. Plein-air artists work ...