Visitors to Crystal Cove State Park can take the beauty, or rather a memory of it, home with them … one that they create. The Crystal Cove Conservancy offers plein air painting classes two days a week ...

The passion for plein-air painting is alive and well in Astoria and surrounding areas. Plein-air art provides the viewer with a window into natural wonders, captured in the moment by the artist.

"Plein air" painting is a French expression that means "in the open air." It refers to the act of painting outdoors. Plein air painting was made possible through the invention of paint tubes that ...

Come Paint with Me, the free, non-instructional en plein air program, will celebrate its 20th anniversary Thursday at the place it all began: Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford. The ...

A painting by Sandy Hall, a Greenfield artist and retired art teacher. Hall is the guest artist at the Southside Art League in October, showing a collection of paintings in the Off Broadway Gallery.

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 ...

On a piece of rocky ground at the base of a steep bank along the mist-shrouded Little River, oil painter Olena Babak sets up her easel. It’s late in the day to be starting a new piece - less than ...