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Living Room, Wide Angle and Kitchen 22 x 28, oil on paper. All works by Mitchell Long. No matter the venue, the accepted rule of thumb is that a painting should always be hung just above eye level. As a result, many artists create paintings with this point of view. Louisiana artist Mitchell Long seeks...
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15 Aug 2010
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Filed under: oil, American Artist, Drawing, plein air, oil painting techniques, focal point, perspective, perspective drawing, panoramaic painting, old masters, Van Gogh, photographic effects
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Spring Thunder by Mark Haworth, 2008, oil, 24 x 36. Sometimes it is difficult to put aside real-world stresses and tasks when it comes time to pursue our art. To-do lists, family matters, and social obligations crowd in, making it almost impossible to concentrate. One of the ways I clear my head is to...
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The process of underpainting has such a buttoned-up reputation. If it were cast in a movie, it would be the uptight, by-the-book stickler that no one wants to hangout with. That’s because the process of underpainting is often associated with a belabored, rigid series of steps that delays us from...
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Sunset Mooring, Nova Scotia , by William H. Hays, 2004, oil, 38 x 28. With summer in full swing, I've been spending as much time as possible outdoors, going to concerts and plays, walking from place to place when I do my errands, and just finding every excuse for an outdoor excursion. Plein air painting...
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Looks Like Heaven by John Budicin, 2002, oil, 32 x 40. Collection The California Club, Los Angeles, California. Almost any artist will tell you that there's a certain appeal to working outdoors that can't be found anywhere else. With summer in full swing, many of us have left our studios for...
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cjordan
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27 Jun 2010
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Filed under: oil, American Artist, Watercolor, plein air, en plein air, landscape paintings, How To Paint, Hudson River School, Nancy Colella, focal point, Frank Serrano
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American Artist's Weekend With the Masters Workshop & Conference will be arriving on the sunny shores of Southern California this September 22-26, in our second-annual presentation of this four-day event. Workshops, demos, lectures, panel discussions, and evening events from more than 25 instructors...
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Allison
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15 Jun 2010
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Filed under: Plein Air, American Artist, Granville Redmond, Robert Wood, Joseph McGurl, oil, Weekend With the Masters, Scott Christensen, George Gallo, Hudson River School, Frank Serrano, Camille Przewodek, impressionist, sketches, workshop, How to Paint, California Art Club, Marcia Burtt
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On the Cover: Tang Dynasty Steed (detail) by Alberta Geyer, 2008, oil, 24 x 20. Courtesy The Hearle Gallery, Chatham, Massachusetts. Combine Watermedia & Pastel for Inspired Results FEATURES Winners of the 2010 Cover Competition Hundreds of artists submitted entries to the 2010 American Artist Cover...
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Brian Riley
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1 Jun 2010
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Filed under: American Artist, Plein Air, oil, Stephen Doherty, John A. Parks, landscape paintings, Watermedia, Hudson Valley, Cover Competition, Allison Malafronte, Grand Central Academy of Art, Nicholas Hiltner
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On the Cover: Camie Davis (below) teaching at the Grand Central Academy of Art, in New York City. Photo by Nathan Kraxberger Cedric Egeli: Knowing How to Learn FEATURES Workshops as Shared Learning Experiences by M. Stephen Doherty A number of valuable and lasting benefits can accrue when artists work...
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Great Basin, Mount Katahdin, Maine , by Frederic Edwin Church, 1852, oil. After several months of hiatus, the Plein Air blog is back! Courtney and I have worked out a biweekly schedule to get the blog back on track, and I’m excited to resume coverage of the artists, events, exhibitions, tools and...
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On the Cover: Portrait of the Artist Louis Comfort Tiffany (detail) by Joaquín Sorolla, 1909, oil, 21 1⁄4 x 25 1⁄4. Courtesy the Hispanic Society of America, New York, New York. Paint With Watercolors as if You Were Assembling a Puzzle FEATURES Acrylic Special Section: Exploring Versatile...
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Ville Franche, France by Eric Wiegardt, 2009, watercolor, 22 x 30 It’s only March, and already I’m fantasizing about summer road trips and exotic jaunts. But then I remember that almost every time I go on vacation my glow wears off once the artists show up. Inevitably, I see a traveler who...
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I’ve never heard of a painting marathon or an Iron Man competition for artists, but if there were such a thing, Kevin Macpherson would be a title contender. In 1996, Macpherson decided to challenge himself by creating a painting from one vantage point—overlooking the pond just outside his...
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7 Mar 2010
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Filed under: oil, American Artist, Drawing, plein air, en plein air, landscape paintings, How To Paint, Art Instruction, Painting Instruction, painting technique, oil painting techniques, painting techniques, en plein air landscape, Painting Tips, Courtney Jordan, art history, Kevin Macpherson
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On the Cover: Deb Painting Spring Creek (detail) by Edward Martinez, 2006, oil, 22 x 14. Collection the artist. Jim Wilcox: Western Landscapes Using Plein Air Sketches, Photographs, Research, & Imagination to Create Studio Paintings Plein Air Past: From Europe to America The History of the Plein...
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Brian Riley
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25 Feb 2010
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Filed under: American Artist, Plein Air, Sketches, oil, Stephen Doherty, John A. Parks, Molly Siple, Rockwell, Hudson Valley, Edward Minoff, Allison Malafronte, Kevin Macpherson, Winslow Homer, Andy Evansen, Rob Liberace, Jim Wilcox, Travis Schlaht, Jacob Collins, Learning From the Masters, Steve Armes, Lynn Gertenbach
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I recently joined a gym in my neighborhood, with the hopes of working off some of those extra holiday pounds that seem to wear out their welcome around this time every year. My schedule is pretty busy, so I try to streamline my visits, making a beeline for the treadmill as soon as I arrive. Occasionally...
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Ever since my trip to Venice, Italy, last year, I have been looking at paintings of the city by 19th-century artists such as Sargent and Whistler, as well as contemporary artists such as Steve Rogers and Leonard Mizerek . I've become more aware of how these artists exaggerated color relationships...