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Summer Wind Patterns

As we all start getting ready to step outside our studios and paint outdoors or create studio landscape painting based on our experiences in nature, I wanted to explain the design elements that I put together for this particular painting, Summer Wind...

Published 9 May 2013 12:43 AM by Robert Reynolds

Filed under: Landscape Painting, Watercolor Painting
Stairways to Heaven

"Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling." - Leonardo da Vinci Crepuscular rays are those wonderful beams of light we see at the beginning or end of the day that appear to radiate from the single point of the sun and stream...

Published 5 Mar 2013 12:56 AM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: oil painting, Landscape Painting
Power to the Pencil

With so much interest in plein air painting these days, it's easy to overlook how important drawing skills can be to the landscape painting artist. Fundamentally, drawing is both a way of seeing and a way of knowing a subject. If you can draw it,...

Published 24 Jan 2013 12:10 AM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, drawing, Drawing Basics, How to Draw, Art
Dark Shadows

Why go to the trouble of painting from life when our cameras can take such great pictures? Digital cameras have gotten so good at taking properly exposed, beautiful photos that they can fool us into thinking that they are also accurate. To be sure, the...

Published 22 Jan 2013 12:30 AM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Art
It's Not Because I'm Lazy

You’re in a beautiful plein air painting location, you whip out your camera and take photograph after photograph – it's essential to have lots of references for landscape painting, you know. Then you dig out your sketchbook, pencils, and...

Published 6 Dec 2012 12:15 AM by Marion Boddy-Evans

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, sketching
See the Forest NOT the Trees

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky." - Khalil Gibran Perhaps the biggest challenge for those of us who paint from life is to see and understand what is right before our eyes. This may sound simple, but it is anything but, and...

Published 8 Nov 2012 12:48 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, 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
Wimping Out of Plein Air Painting

Whenever I end up in a conversation where other artists start talking about the kit they take with them when plein air painting --and it often starts with what plein air easel is the best--I tend to keep quiet. Very quiet. A page from my sketchbook when...

Published 26 Jul 2012 3:59 PM by Marion Boddy-Evans

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, sketching
That Time of Year

Recently we added an informative article to the members' area of The Artist's Road called "Understanding Light in the Landscape: The Carlson Theory of Angles." It gives the student a crucial tool to make sense of the confusing array...

Published 21 May 2012 10:32 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint
Value Division in Landscape Painting

Landscape values are easier to understand when viewed as falling into four major divisions or zones. Reading values in landscapes is somewhat different from reading values in other subjects. All subjects have a light source, but the source in a landscape...

Published 1 May 2012 10:55 AM by Mitchell Albala

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint
Same Subject, Different Visions

On Location with Michael Stasinos and Mitchell Albala It never ceases to amaze me how unique each painter's vision can be—in everything from the subjects they choose to the color choices they make or the type of painterly handwriting they use...

Published 26 Mar 2012 10:33 PM by Mitchell Albala

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint
Playing Studio Detective with a Monet Painting

If there were any artist, past or present, into whose studio I could magically transport myself and observe him paint, it would be Claude Monet. I have always been intrigued by his painting style, especially his highly textured and complex surfaces. When...

Published 8 Feb 2012 10:30 PM by Mitchell Albala

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Drawing Basics, Art
Don't Let Your Plein-Air Skills Grow Cold

Don't give up your plein air focus over the winter months. Try to paint from life indoors and keep sketching. ( Melting Snow by Ben Fenske, 60 x 75, oil on canvas.) For some of us, winter weather is just a bit too unpredictable and chilly to spend...

Published 9 Jan 2012 10:37 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, sketching, Still Life, Portrait Painting, Drawing Basics, Art
Such a Diversity of Shapes in Her Landscape Paintings

Turquoise Sky 3 , acrylic on panel, 5 x 5. All works by Lisa Snow Lady. I give a lot of credit to professional and semi-professional artists who seek out ongoing training or the advice of peers, even after their initial successes. I firmly believe that...

Published 28 Dec 2011 10:45 PM by Mitchell Albala

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Art
Free Video Lesson on Color Strategies in Plein Air Painting

This short video is excerpted from a demonstration I gave at my annual plein air painting workshop in Skagit Valley, Washington. ( Gage Academy of Art , July, 2010.) The video talks about painting strategies in general and gives specific examples of the...

Published 7 Dec 2011 10:15 PM by Mitchell Albala

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

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