Category: Point of View

The Plein Truth ← Return to Part 4 This is the final part of this series… When a lively group of plein air painters on the Monterey peninsula,

Plein Air is Not a Style ← Return to Part 3 Let us put this one to rest, bury it alongside that other notion that you can paint

What Plein Air is Not ← Back to Part 2 It can be said, reasonably so, that the core characteristic, the primary feature, the essential genetic map of

Indoors is Not Outdoors ← Return to Part 1 Plein air painting is something like that, too, something like cooking, in the sense that there is also an

Mind Over Matter If you already think that plein air painting is painting a scene in the outdoors while outdoors, then you can skip this post. At first

…here is the landscape, moving me to respond to it, taking my breath away… Copying the landscape or rendering precisely the arrangement of objects in a still life