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April 2009 - Plein Air Blog

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En Plein Air: Local Color

Los Angeles screenwriter, director, producer, and plein air painter George Gallo's movie Local Color will be released this summer and is already touching artists and audiences everywhere through prescreening...

Posted to Plein Air Blog by Allison on 30 Apr 2009
Filed under: Plein Air, American Artist, en plein air, Weekend With the Masters, Local Color, George Gallo, workshop, How to Paint, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Edward Minoff's Large-Scale Landscape Painting

New York artist Edward Minoff wrote an article that will appear in the July/August issue of American Artist on his approach to creating a large-scale landscape in the style of the Hudson River School painters...

Posted to Plein Air Blog by Allison on 23 Apr 2009
Filed under: American Artist, Landscape, Asher B. Durand, oil, Cavalier Galleries, Edward Minoff, Hudson River School, Landscape Painting, Frederic Edwin Church, Nicholas Hiltner, Travis Schlaht, William Trost Richards, Jacob Collins
Anatomy of the Landscape: Clouds

The sky can be the crowning glory of a landscape painting, with a well-done version enhancing the harmony of the overall piece and a less accurately rendered version detracting from the focus of the elements...

Posted to Plein Air Blog by Allison on 16 Apr 2009
Filed under: Plein Air, Anatomy of the Landscape, clouds, Landscape Painting
En Plein Air: A Conversation With Scott Christensen

Idaho artist Scott Christensen is one of the most well-respected landscape painters in the country, and his understanding of light, ability to achieve pure color, and reverence for nature also make him...

Posted to Plein Air Blog by Allison on 9 Apr 2009
Filed under: Plein Air, American Artist, Clyde Aspevig, oil, en plein air, Weekend With the Masters, Scott Christensen, Landscape Painting, sketches, workshop, drawing, Nicolai Fechin, Allison Malafronte, Rembrandt
Plein Air Painters at Weekend With the Masters

More than 18 top painters will be teaching at American Artist’s Weekend With the Masters Workshop & Conference this September, including the following five plein air painters who will be leading...

Posted to Plein Air Blog by Allison on 2 Apr 2009
Filed under: Plein Air, Joseph McGurl, oil, Kevin Macpherson, Weekend With the Masters, Scott Christensen, Frank Serrano, Landscape Painting, sketches, workshop, landscape paintings, drawing, art educators

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April 2009 - Plein Air Blog

En Plein Air: Local Color

Edward Minoff's Large-Scale Landscape Painting

Anatomy of the Landscape: Clouds

En Plein Air: A Conversation With Scott Christensen

Plein Air Painters at Weekend With the Masters