Terry Masters can fill a canvas in a matter of minutes. He starts with black paint, brushing outlines of mountains and plants onto canvas. Before the paint has a moment to dry, he pulls blue, brown ...

The first time I saw plein air painters doing their thing near Traverse City, we were cycling the Leelanau Peninsula and were taking a break at picturesque Fishtown. A dozen painters had easels set up ...

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Since artists first sketched its forests, lakes and waterfalls nearly two hundred years ago, Minnesota’s tradition of plein air landscape painting has continued to thrive. Early explorers and soldiers ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Pat Branting will lead a plein air landscape painting class June 21-23. The three-day intensive ...

The Oklahoma Art Guild is offering a Plein Air Landscape workshop with Rick McClure. The workshop will take place in four different Oklahoma outdoor locations throughout the course of the year and ...

Painter Mary O. Smith drove to Savannah from Townsend, Ga., in a camper bus she parked alongside Chippewa Square just feet from where she plans to paint the James Oglethorpe monument during Paint Out ...

Originating from the French impressionist movement of the 1860s and popularised by Paris artists such as Claude Monet, painting en plein air (in the open air) evolved as a technique when paints became ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...