A band of nomads is dropping by the Main Line in what has become a yearly visitation. The 30 plein-air (“open air”) painters arriving Sunday for the 7th Annual Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival hail ...

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 ...

GREENWICH — The sun was shining, the easels were set up and master artist Andrew Lattimore's workshop on plein air painting was in full swing over the weekend. Plein air painting is about leaving the ...

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 help ...

With portable easels, paints and canvases in tow, more than 30 local artists filled various nooks and crannies in downtown Cary on Saturday to paint "en plein air." With portable easels, paints and ...

PORT ANGELES — Gretha Lindwood’s not usually a coffee drinker, but she sips when she paints. The caffeine keeps her gloved, pastel-powdery hands busy. By now, the Portland, Ore., painter knows what ...

The changing leaves ebbed and flowed in the wind as the sun shone down on the many painters participating in the 7th Annual Paint It Orange Plein Air Paint-Out, taking place Oct. 4-6, across Orange ...

Paint the town! Local artists registered in the Denver Plein Air Arts Fest have been taking their talents to the streets — and the foothills — painting locations around town.The artists “set up an ...

Artists' easels will sprout like mushrooms this week around Richmond. The first Plein Air Richmond, described by organizers as a "weeklong paint out," gets under way Monday and continues through ...

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