After several months of hiatus, the Plein Air blog
is back!
Our new Artist Daily editor, Courtney Jordan, and I have worked out a
biweekly
schedule to get the Plein Air blog back on track, and I’m excited to
resume
coverage of the artists, events, exhibitions, tools and tips, and
conservation
issues that matter most to you as painters and interpreters of nature.
I don’t think it would be a stretch to say that plein air
painting is something artists of all styles, subject matter, and
strengths can
enjoy. Throughout history numerous landscape approaches have emerged
either in
tandem with or in opposition to the stylistic movements that were being
pioneered indoors by figure, portrait, or still life painters. Whether
those
plein air paintings were used as preparatory sketches for larger studio
pieces or
considered finished works in their own right, working outdoors from
nature at
some point in the process was, and continues to be, of supreme
importance to a
great many landscape painters.
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