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"Moss Beach Cove," by Ed Terpening, 2014, watercolor, 6 x 6 in. Collection the artist |
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Ed Terpening explored questions about marketing artwork in his analysis of a two-month survey he recently conducted. | Terpening's Research Reveals What Works for Artists Online Ed Terpening, a San Francisco artist, loves to paint outdoors, but he is evidently a relatively rare breed -- he loves his day job, too. Terpening's work with research on digital marketing leads him to offer the occasional analysis on art marketing for free, just to help his fellow artists out. His latest survey and analysis was posted last week, and some of his findings are bound to surprise painters. [read more] |
WIPAPA member painting on location on the Hunger Task Force's farm, in Franklin, Wisconsin |
Artists Paint for Hunger Task Force In Wisconsin, a group of painters has found a way to help combat hunger in their community, while potentially putting bread on their own tables as well. [read more] |
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Jim McVicker painting at Point Lobos |
Who Do You Know in These PACE Photos? Plein air artists are back at home now after a thrilling four-day convention in Monterey, California, but the information and inspiration culled from the Plein Air Convention & Expo is only just beginning to impact the career growth of attendees. Many of the 700 who made the trip were sad to see it end; here are some photos to bring a little bit of the excitement back ... until next year. [read more] |
The First Brush of Spring event in New Harmony, Indiana, included a panel discussion featuring, from left, Scott Christenson, Quang Ho, C.W. Mundy, and Carolyn Anderson. |
Plein Air Luminaries Drawn to SW Indiana The unusual town of New Harmony, tucked in the southwest corner of Indiana near Evansville, recently attracted some of the brightest lights in plein air painting for the First Brush of Spring event. The all-star jury awarded prizes to more than 40 artists. [read more] |
"End of a Winter's Day," by Brad Holt, 2014, oil, 12 x 16 in. | My Favorite Place to Paint: Brad Holt The rocks are indeed red, but there's more to the Kolob Canyons region of Zion National Park than that. Brad Holt has spent 20 years chasing it down. [read more] |
PleinAir Salon Grand Prize winner Stewart White is awarded $15,000 at the Plein Air Convention & Expo, held earlier this month in Monterey, California. |
Full List of PleinAir Salon 2014 Winners Stewart White was awarded the PleinAir Salon's Grand Prize and $15,000 at the Plein Air Convention & Expo earlier this month, but other prizes in the overall, year-long competition were announced as well. Who else took home awards? [read more] |
"Styrian Mountains, Austria," by Egon Miklavcic, watercolor, 8 x 16 in. |
Why This Works: Vignette Approach 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, Egon Miklavcic's "Styrian Mountains, Austria." [read more] |
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"West Cliff Cove," by Rafael DeSoto, Jr., oil, 20 x 22 in. |
Parallels Between Watercolor and Palette Knife Painting Rafael DeSoto, Jr. painted in oil until a fire destroyed his studio in 1984. He switched to watercolors then -- at first out of necessity, but he soon found he was fond of the medium. His return to oil painting, this time with a palette knife, surprisingly reminds him of watercolor painting. [read more] |
"Cloud Study," by Johan Christian Dahl, oil on paper. Thaw Collection | EXHIBITION: "Sky Studies: Oil Sketches From the Thaw
Collection" A small show of plein air studies of skies executed by French, German, and Scandinavian artists in the last half of the 19th century is on view at the Morgan Library & Museum through fall 2014. [read more] |
Jane Hunt's painting inadvertently captured a special moment for an Australian couple. | Parting Shot: Weddings Can Pop Up Jane Hunt set up in a secluded spot and proceeded to paint a deserted beach. Then a wedding happened. [read more] |
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