The winner of 17 Best of Show awards for his paintings, Temecularesident David Musser will demonstrate his plein-air landscapepainting techniques at Fallbrook Art Association’s March 13meeting. Musser ...

Terry Masters can fill a canvas in a matter of minutes. He starts with black paint, brushing outlines of mountains and plants onto canvas. Before the paint has a moment to dry, he pulls blue, brown ...

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 ...

West Feliciana Middle School campus Art II students used good weather in November as a chance to practice en plein air — or painting outdoors —techniques.

When early California scene painting began to gain popularity in the 19th and early 20th centuries, artists were inspired by the French practice of plein air, bringing their easels outdoors to capture ...

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 ...

Originating from the French impressionist movement of the 1860s and popularised by Paris artists such as Claude Monet, painting en plein air (in the open air) evolved as a technique when paints became ...

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 ...