Plein air – Waites Run Studios

Trusting your senses

In the few posts I’ve made on this blog, I’ve been an advocate for plein air painting — which is painting on location, rather than working from reference photos. I think plein air and “from life” work is important because of the advancements I saw in myself and in my work once I started painting […]

Why paint plein air?

Plein air, Watercolor / September 6, 2021 / Glen Burnie, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, plein air, watercolor, Winchester

“Plein air” is a French term, loosely translated as “outdoor” and refers to the act of painting on location. The notoriety of plein air painting is most often attached to the development of French Impressionism in the 1870s as painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, and Alfred Sisley eschewed the Classical conventions

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