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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
Plein Air Artist Asher B. Durand Wrote Me a Letter...Sorta...Not Really

Rocky Cliff by Asher B. Durand, oil on canvas, 1860. Based on an article by Allison Malafronte. As you all well know, I spend a lot of time writing. But I also spend a lot of time reading, and lately I have absolutely fallen in love with reading letters...

Published 21 Jun 2011 1:36 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Portrait Painting, Drawing Basics, Art
Plein Air Painting Techniques: How to Paint Clouds

Clouds are not all created equal, just like not every sunset or skyscape is the same. They all have their own unique look and feel, even though we can see them all the time. And it is the plein air artist's goal, passion, purpose to eek out that unique something in every scene they decide to paint.
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Published 23 Mar 2011 10:29 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Pastel, Portrait Painting, Drawing Basics
En Plein Air: A Conversation With Matt Smith

by Allison Malafronte Every month I allow you to come into my cube for a few minutes and “listen in” on a conversation I had with a top plein air painter. I try to ask the artist the questions I think you as aspiring professional plein air...

Published 6 Nov 2008 2:00 AM by Allison Malafronte

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Portrait Painting, Drawing Basics, Art

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Don't Let Your Plein-Air Skills Grow Cold

Plein Air Artist Asher B. Durand Wrote Me a Letter...Sorta...Not Really

Plein Air Painting Techniques: How to Paint Clouds

En Plein Air: A Conversation With Matt Smith