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Jonny Luczycki paints a glacier from aboard the Island Princess on a recent cruise to Alaska as part of the Great Alaskan Plein Air Retreat 2014, organized by the Painted Ladies group. |
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The boat carrying the painters comes into port. | Painting on a Cruise Ship Painting on a cruise? Even the organizers of a recent painting retreat weren't entirely sure how things would go as 48 artists and their companions boarded a 91,000-ton ship for a trip to Alaska. [read more] |
Thomas Buchs painting on location at Plein Air Cedarburg |
160 Artists Compete in Cedarburg The plein air event in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, is one of the bigger competitions in the country. Who took the top prize this year? [read more] |
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Front to back: Laura Young, Scott Ruthven, and Margueritte Meier paint in Plein Air Artists Colorado's marathon. Photo by Ken Knox. |
Painting Marathon in Colorado Tested Artists' Resolve More than a dozen artists hopped from one location to another in north central Colorado in what was billed as a plein air marathon. [read more] |
"Cove Daze," by Mark Fehlman; Grand Prize winner |
LPAPA Names Winners The Best of Plein Air? The Laguna Plein Air Painters Association named them last week, and the winners will hang in the Randy Higbee Gallery in Costa Mesa, California, through July 18. [read more] |
Dawn Whitelaw draws a crowd at Plein Air Richmond. | Big Winners in Richmond Brazier Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, held its third annual benefit for the Richmond Symphony at the end of June, and $10,000 in prizes was awarded. That's a lot of notes. [read more] |
Kat Sowa paints the oak-dotted hills above Calero Reservoir. |
Los Gatos Plein Air Draws Crowd, Hands Out Awards Word is that attendance was "heavy" at the Los Gatos Plein Air event, which concluded on June 21. Best of Show went to a familiar name. [read more] |
"High Peaks Overlook," by Frances Gaffney, graphite |
Standard Deviation: Plein Air in Graphite The first -- and for some, the hardest -- step in plein air painting is seeing the values in the scene. Frances Gaffney has a suggestion for people who want to read a scene more quickly. [read more] |
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Artwork lined up in the amphitheater at the National Museum of Wildlife Art's Plein Air Fest |
Solstice in Jackson Hole More than 50 artists hit the 3/4-mile Sculpture Trail at the National Museum of Wildlife Art on June 21 for Plein Air Fest, an event sponsored by the museum in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. [read more] |
"A Show on the Road," by Kim VanDerHoek, 2014, oil, 16 x 8 in. Courtesy of Hillside Fine Art, Claremont, CA. | Why This Works: Proportion and
Shadow In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and points out why they succeed as painted images. This week, Kim VanDerHoek's "A Show on the Road." [read more] |
Wanda Mumm poses during the Hockaday Museum of Art's Plein Air Paint Out. | Parting Shot: Creating in Kalispell The Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell, Montana, recently sponsored a plein air event to benefit the museum, and more than 25 artists turned out to support the institution, including Wanda Mumm, pictured. [read more] |
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