A juried show of 56 works, painted “en plein air” that depict local OC Parks, like Irvine Regional Park, Peter’s Canyon, Salt ...

This technique—painting landscapes on-site, rapidly, without drawing or erasing—is called plein-air painting. It emerged from landscape painters working before cameras were widespread, who ...

Last year he judged the Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Competition hosted by the Laguna ... “His work is much more interpretive of the landscape. Plein-air painters normally paint as close to ...

The Plein Air meet-up group, co-founded by local artist Ralph Papa, meets in various venues throughout the city to paint and document its landscape and history.

Plein air painting goes back centuries and the key is it is done outside, in the open air. Students go home with a color wheel they create and their painting of the landscape.

How long does it take you finish one of these plein air landscape paintings? I tell people 30 years. Seriously, at times I’ll finish one in 1 ½ hours; other times it takes a lot longer.

Digital plein air painting is a new art form that enables artists to push shapes for artistic effect. ... Nick Pugh has taught digital landscape painting at Art Center, CA, and wrote Luminair, ...

Connecticut-based artist David Lussier was trained as an illustrator, but he found his true passion when he began painting outdoors. And that love led to a new project, Painting New England ...

The 19th century was the great age of plein-air landscape painting, when artists left their studios and took to the outdoors to capture not a romanticized ­vision of nature but the real thing. To ...

Thursday will feature a Quick Paint Challenge from 3-7 p.m. at Inglewood Farms. On Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. will be a Plein Air Workshop led by renowned New Orleans landscape artist Phil ...