This landscape oil painting captures a moment of creativity as the artist develops a new piece and explores its final ...

Painting session at Situ Gede Lake in Bogor captures the calm beauty of nature in real time. Watch the full process as a peaceful lakeside landscape is created from initial sketch to final brushwork, ...

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 ...

On a bright morning in late June, Shirl Ireland stands in her backyard painting majestic Mount Sepulchre, which rises from the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park. This kind of outdoor painting ...

The air is crisp, the October sun is still warm, and the vibrant colors of the trees are breathtaking. For local artists painting outside — or “en plein air” — this is a time to embrace and celebrate ...

Since artists first sketched its forests, lakes and waterfalls nearly two hundred years ago, Minnesota’s tradition of plein air landscape painting has continued to thrive. Early explorers and soldiers ...

Painter Mary O. Smith drove to Savannah from Townsend, Ga., in a camper bus she parked alongside Chippewa Square just feet from where she plans to paint the James Oglethorpe monument during Paint Out ...

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 ...