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.

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 picture-perfect morning at Crocker Park, students in a plein air painting class set up their easels and got to work capturing the idyllic harbor scene in front of them. “It’s just heaven here,” ...

"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 ...

In early 1860s France, four young art students discovered they shared an infatuation for painting landscapes and contemporary life. Together they would visit the local countryside, pull out their ...

Students and teachers within the fine arts department in the Katy Independent School District Saturday for the first time ever were given the opportunity to paint “en plein air” — the practice of ...

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.

If the sky is blue and the weather is warm, chances are Peter Plant can be found with a box of painting supplies and a canvas in tow. The 69-year-old from Middletown is one of 35 plein-air artists ...

In an exceptional use of contrasts, an idyllic scene painted in shades of translucent blue, effortlessly lets the warm sun trickle in, as a man atop a bull gazes into the distance. He stands beside a ...