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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mount Dora Center for the Arts will host a Plein Air Paint Out from Nov. 10 to 16. Artists will set up their easels around Mount Dora as they paint nature, buildings and people. Plein-air artists work ...

Painting outdoors is a challenge, artists will tell you. The light changes. The shadows move. The weather can turn windy or rainy. Yet, sometimes, said Brenda Boylan, a Portland painter, "A little sun ...