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Into the Arctic: The Plan

Zooming in and out of the Canadian North like a hummingbird on a flower, my mouse was beginning to heat up. An armchair explorer’s best friend, Google Earth was helping me understand the massive scale of the Arctic ( here's my video all about...

Published 20 Nov 2012 12:39 AM by Cory Trepanier

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Art
Can't Get No Satisfaction?

We travel frequently to paint en plein air in new locations and sometimes teach workshops in those new environments as well. One of our favorite locations is northern New Mexico--the Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch area. Each day while we are there, we plan our...

Published 15 Nov 2012 1:10 AM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing
Hit the Right Values Every Time

Perhaps the toughest skill that the artist painting outside must learn is the ability to judge values accurately, and then mix them in paint. The reason that this skill requires so much practice to get right is because our eyes and brains are constantly...

Published 30 Oct 2012 2:12 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Color
Don't Forget to Look Behind You

When walking through a landscape looking for that magical spot that compels you to stop to sketch or put up your plein air easel, don't forget to look behind you (and not for muggers, but the view!). Stop regularly, turn around and consider the view...

Published 27 Sep 2012 12:32 AM by Marion Boddy-Evans

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Art
Ways of Interpreting Color: Studio vs. Plein Air

In plein air we attempt a form of direct translation. In the studio, we may recall our observations of nature, but are freer to be inventive with color. Night Passage by Mitchell Albala, 2006, oil painting on panel, 20 x 20. It's September and the...

Published 18 Sep 2012 2:04 PM by Mitchell Albala

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Drawing Basics, Color
Plein Air Nocturnes: More Alive Than the Day

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." --Vincent Van Gogh Moonrise Road by John Hulsey, plein air painting. Plein air painting at night in bright moonlight is great fun and a wonderful learning experience...

Published 28 Aug 2012 12:12 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing
Plein Air Essence

We enjoyed the recent plein air blog of artist Marion Boddy-Evans and agree with her sentiments. We have been outdoor painting for over forty years each (before the "plein air" phrase became ubiquitous) and have always felt that the value in...

Published 14 Aug 2012 12:01 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Art
Beating the Winter Blues

Call it the blues, call it the doldrums, call it what you will--it seems that many of us plein-air painters go through a slump about this time of year. Even if the weather is good enough for painting outdoors, nature isn't always at her finest when...

Published 22 Feb 2012 10:14 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Art, Artist Daily
A Very Different Kind of Landscape Painting

Ernest Lawson (1873 - 1939) came to maturity at the dawn of the 20th century, so his work was modern and gritty and real. His are not the idyllic landscape paintings of Corot , nor are they the dazzling light shows in Monet's plein air paintings ...

Published 5 Oct 2011 10:54 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Drawing Basics, Art
Plein Air Paintings Created By Torchlight & Preserved Forever

Drawings of horses in the Chauvet caves. We recently watched the Werner Herzog film, Chauvet: Cave of Forgotten Dreams . Herzog made the film about the prehistoric, 30,000- to 32,000 year-old cave art discovered in 1994 in the Ardeche region of France...

Published 5 Sep 2011 10:10 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Drawing Basics, Art
Mixing Harmonious Greens in My Plein Air Painting

All you landscape artists who live in the dry, deserty parts of the world, or you plein air painters in the wet, watery parts of the world, bear with me, but those of us who live in the lushly vegetated parts of the world face a big challenge: green!...

Published 25 Jul 2011 10:07 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing
Painting Outdoors: Fast and Easy Block-Ins

I used to waste oodles of time blocking in my plein air paintings until I finally learned some great tips for doing them fast, such as skipping the drawing, establishing the value range first, and addressing each set of values in a logical order. Here's...

Published 18 Jul 2011 10:24 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Drawing Basics, Perspective Drawing
Composing On the Fly When Painting Outdoors

A photo of the plein air landscape site I chose to paint. I can still recall the first morning I saw this little bend in the river ike it was yesterday. The air was still cool and breezy, the sun was glinting off the water, the bees in their hive were...

Published 23 Jun 2011 11:05 AM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, figure drawing, sketching, Landscape Drawing, Drawing Basics, How to Draw People, Art, Perspective Drawing
Plein Air Painting with Clyde Aspevig

Flower Garden by Clyde Aspevig, oil on canvas, 24 x 12. Content adapted from an article by Allison Malafronte. Clyde Aspevig is a landscape painter and seasoned plein air artist who prides himself on going out into his chosen environs with a feeling of...

Published 22 Jun 2011 10:33 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, oil painting, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Art
More Tips for Painting Water En Plein Air

John and Ann’s recent post about painting water en plein air was so inspiring and right on target. I love painting water elements, too, because they always make plein air landscape paintings more interesting. John and Ann’s tips were great, and I have two more to add:
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Published 27 Apr 2011 10:20 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Painting Water, Landscape Drawing, Art

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