Innholdsfortegnelse for June/July 2024 i PleinAir Magazine

PAINT GRAND TRAVERSE a plein air affair CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER OF TRAVERSE CITY, MI 2024 Awards Juror: Kathleen Hudson Colorado based Painter Festival Dates: June 15-22 Fresh Paint Party: June 21 Jurors Workshop: June 22-23 EXTENDED EXHIBIT JUNE 25 - AUG. 23 Go to paintgrandtraverse.com for participating artists, calendar of events and additional details. ajeccleshall@gmail.com andyeccleshall.com Represented by Cole Gallery, Edmonds, WA; Mary Williams Fine Arts, Boulder, CO; Centerpiece Gallery, Raleigh, NC h.acuna45@gmail.com acunaarts.com Represented by Kim Storage Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; Levee Contemporary, Princeton, WI; Shaun Horne Gallery, Crested Butte, CO mehaffeyfineart@gmail.com 517.449.2935 markmehaffeyfineart.com Represented by Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI; Synchronicity Gallery, Glen Arbor, MI; Main Branch Gallery, Grayling, MI bartonart1@gmail.com 231.838.7085 kevinbartonartist.com Instagram: @bartonsartloft Represented by Synchronicity Gallery, Glen Arbor, MI; Somebody's Gallery, Petoskey, MI; Mackinac's Little…

VIEW OF SCENE Tomova Clark chose the pond right outside her home as her subject matter, with an eye toward using the community's clubhouse as the focal point and the pond offering beautiful blues and intriguing reflections. STEP 1 The artist uses canvas panels for plein air work. For this piece, she used transparent colors to loosely block in the main shapes. “At this stage, I'm interested in the composition and the positioning of the elements in the scene,” she says. “For colors, I use warmer versions of the local color that I see.” STEP 2 Tomova Clark then turned her attention to shadows and other darks in the scene, putting them in their places thinly and impressionistically. “I love to keep shadows transparent; it lets the painting breathe a…

This spring, a group of 35 plein air artists enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Japan with Eric Rhoads, publisher of PleinAir Magazine. Over the course of 12 days, the group traveled 580 miles across three regions, taking in the sights of Tokyo, Kyoto, and Kawaguchicko (Mt. Fuji). In addition to painting almost every day at temples, cherry blossom-filled parks, and other exotic locales, they also got to dress in kimonos, meet with traditional geishas, sit in on a Japanese calligraphy class, and visit unique art stores and museums. “I plan an international trip, called the Publisher's Invitational, each year to plein air paint in places people may not go on their own,” says Rhoads. “It's a great way to see the world and have everything provided so you don't have…

E-mail: bericrhoads@gmail.com Phone: 512.607.6423 Facebook: /ericrhoads Twitter: @ericrhoads In case you're new to plein air painting, I thought it might be helpful to provide some background. Plein air painting in some form has been around since the mid-1500s. Among the first documented outdoor painters was Italian artist Agostino Tassi (1578–1644), who taught artist Claude Lorrain (1600–1682), who in turn is known to many as the father of outdoor painting. In the next century, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819) in France and John Constable (1776–1837) in England paved the way for the landscape to be treated as a subject in itself, not just a backdrop. In the outdoor paintings of Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) and the Barbizon School, the focus turned to capturing everyday people at work in the fields near the Forest…

EXPANDED DIGITAL EDITION CONTENT Listening to Nancy Tankersley explain her approach to plein air, it becomes apparent that her most important goal is to make a good painting. As one of the founders of Plein Air Easton, she's had the opportunity to paint and talk with many of the best plein air artists in the country. Over the lifetime of the event, the Maryland oil painter has undoubtedly had her best instincts affirmed and additional wisdom conferred upon her. But the way she describes her technique suggests that all she discovers and learns gets distilled into best practices rather than subjective rules. Of course, different people may have slightly different “best practices.” And yet who can look at her body of work and fail to see that she has found…

EXPANDED DIGITAL EDITION CONTENT Home will always be mountains and open space,” says Katy Ann Fox. “In such a big expanse you truly get to hear your own thoughts, an experience that influences H everything I paint.” Speaking with Fox at her gallery, Foxtrot Fine Art, in Driggs, Idaho, the passion she has for her artistic endeavors comes through clearly. She speaks of repositioning the gallery inventory with regularity, a practice that contributes to the vibrancy of the space. Here, you'll find the works of artists Aaron Cordell Johnson, Blake Luther, and oil painter Ellen Vieth, among others. Fox's own compositions are featured here as well, with compelling brushwork and themes that are rooted in storytelling. “There was a point when I wondered if I should be a plein air…

kelly@pleinairmagazine.com outdoorpainter.com facebook.com/pleinairmagazine twitter.com/pleinairmag Instagram.com/pleinairmag The average lifespan of a small business is about eight and a half years. For a hobby, it's about 16 months. It's an incredible feat, then, when plein air events (primarily volunteer-run) reach milestone anniversaries like the ones we're celebrating this year. In this issue alone, you'll read about the 10th Annual Shadows-on-the-Teche event, the 20th anniversary of Plein Air Easton, and the 25th annual First Brush of Spring. The success of events like these and others (the annual Laguna Invitational celebrated its 25th anniversary last year) testify to the passion and commitment the volunteers and host communities have for plein air painting, the participating artists, and the local landscape. For the organizers who plan the annual events, as well as the local artists and…

Paint New Mexico! Juried Members Exhibition June 7-23 Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony: June 7, 5-7 p.m. Weems Gallery 5935 Wyoming Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque, 87109 pentemeyer@gmail.com 928.274.6173 joyouslakestudios.com Gallery inquiries welcome www.karenhalbert.com Represented by the Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery, Los Alamos, NM deanne@deannekroll.com deannekroll.com Gallery inquiries welcome lindseycj@plateautel.net carolynlindsey.com Represented by Mary Williams Fine Art doughemlerart@gmail.com doughemlerart.com Represented by Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, Taos, NM jackmcgowan.artist@gmail.com jackmcgowan-artist.com Gallery inquiries welcome dknoxarch@msn.com davidknoxart.com lflynn59@gmail.com lisaflynnfineart.com Visit website for gallery representation 505.438.8866 madinacroce.com showart419@aol.com shelleyhoward.art Represented by Artists on Santa Fe, Denver, CO…

EXPANDED DIGITAL EDITION CONTENT Lyudmila Tomova Clark is a bit mercurial. She'll recount how she rigorously trained in Bulgaria to render accurately, how her art school included long sessions of plein air painting in spring and fall, how she arrived at the Fashion Institute of Technology overqualified, how she changed her painting style to embrace abstraction, how she moved into painting “primitive” art (think Paul Klee), how she had a strong career in New York City doing whimsical illustrations for editorial and marketing (and some set design), how she embraced watercolor, and how she moved into portrait work. But here, we are interested in her current plein air work, in oil. And three of her paintings in this genre offer a reasonable picture of her artistic vision. In The Bike…

SPECIAL FEATURE A leader of the American watercolor movement by the late 1870s, John La Farge used the medium to make studies for illustrations and stained-glass projects, record his travels, and paint plein air landscapes. His interest in Japanese design principles can be seen in exquisite florals that capture the essence of the blooms rather than depict them with scientific accuracy. A critic once remarked, “His flowers have no botanical truth, but are burning with love and beauty.” Humans have been combining pigment and water since we made our first attempts at communication. Dipping into the calcium carbonaterich water that had collected on the stony floor, the cave painters of Lascaux discovered a natural binder for their finely ground pigments. Thousands of years later, ancient Egyptians applied colorful images and…

MARCH The 13th annual PleinAir Salon consists of 12 monthly contests from April 2023 to March 2024. The awards will be presented in May 2024 at the Plein Air Convention & Expo in the Great Smoky Mountains. Winners of each monthly contest are automatically entered into the annual competition. First prize in the annual Salon is $15,000 cash and the publication of the winning image on the cover of PleinAir Magazine, along with a feature story. Second Place earns an artist $3,000 and an article in the digital edition of PleinAir Magazine. Third Place yields $2,000 in cash, with three Honorable Mentions taking home $700 each, and a People's Choice Award garnering $500. Four Best Medium Awards for acrylic, oil, pastel, and watercolor are worth $400 each. Artists also earn…

In April, over 120 artists gathered in New Harmony, Indiana, for the 25th First Brush of Spring plein air event, sponsored by the Indiana Plein Air Painters Association (IPAPA) and the Hoosier Art Salon. Twenty-five years of any event is a milestone, but 25 years of an open plein air event is remarkable. Competition Judge Kelly Kane, Editor-in-Chief of PleinAir Magazine, observed, “Perfectly timed for Midwest painters to brush the cobwebs off their plein air gear, the First Brush of Spring event rang in the outdoor painting season with beautiful weather, charming subjects, and a crop of stellar paintings. For an open event, the caliber of artwork was impressive.” Artists traveled to the event from across the country, attracted by New Harmony's southern Indiana charm, cottages planted with flowers, walkable…