PleinAir Magazine

2 weeks ago | outdoorpainter.com | Bob Bahr

-advertisement-Find out how just a few changes to your toolkit can make a positive difference to your plein air painting experience. Packing Smart: Plein Air Painting for BeginnersPlein air painting is hard enough. It requires serious brain work, with hundreds of decisions needing to be made, often all at once. Concerns around color temperature, accurate versus expressive drawing, details, abstraction, perspective, focal point, and changing light conditions all gang up on the painter in the field.

3 weeks ago | outdoorpainter.com | Bob Bahr

-advertisement-For this demo on how to paint a busy scene, Alex Hillkurtz painted a cafe located down the street from where he lives in Paris. “One morning the light was hitting just right, and the scene had everything I love about cityscapes — incredible light and shadow, and activity,” he says. “There was a hint of the city just waking up.”The artist started with a graphite sketch, then put down washes of color with a big mop brush, letting the colors blend into each other.

2 months ago | outdoorpainter.com | B. Eric Rhoads |Eric Rhoads

-advertisement-Our family’s journey from Indiana to the Adirondacks, discovering a lifelong love for nature, art, and tradition. Join me as I share the unexpected twists that led to finding my forever summer home—and how you can be part of the magic.

2 months ago | outdoorpainter.com | Bob Bahr

-advertisement-From initial iPad sketches to refining the final composition, follow along in this step-by-step landscape painting demonstration as Kimball Geisler navigates creative challenges, balances colors, and brings his vision to life on canvas. Kimball first sketched out compositional possibilities on his iPad. Once he had his idea for the painting, he turned to the canvas — linen toned with earth colors. His quick under-drawing featured linework and hatching.

2 months ago | outdoorpainter.com | John Crump

-advertisement-A spotlight on John Crump, who has embraced plein air painting in New Zealand. “After working en plein air for roughly 50 years, I can even ignore bad weather when it comes down to capturing the mood of my subject.”By John CrumpOver the past few years plein air painting has become more popular in New Zealand. When I began teaching, classes were always indoors, but recently many of my students have wanted to paint on site.