Calvin professor of art Frank Speyers leads a brand-new offering this interim: "An Introduction to Plein Air Painting." Watch a short video on this hands-on course, one of more than 150 interim ...

Create Art and Tea hosts juried event, exhibit and paint-out Cruising through downtown Durango on Tuesday, there’s a good chance you’ll see artists setting up their easels outside and painting what ...

A few years ago, it looked like physical art was going the way of analogue film photography. Digital tools were getting better, faster and cheaper, or even free. Painting on an iPad made more sense ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Artists dotted various sites in the downtown area Friday evening, painting, photographing and observing each other creating works of art via the plein air style — French for “open air.

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 ...

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 ...

Art has always been shaped by the evolving relationship between creative vision and technology. Today, artists eagerly line up for the latest iPad Pro or try out spatial computing headsets like the ...

Among the Roaring Fork Valley’s robust festival lineup, a particular art form has been missing: plein air painting — which simply means painting outdoors, but there’s nothing simple about it. Snowmass ...

On a piece of rocky ground at the base of a steep bank along the mist-shrouded Little River, oil painter Olena Babak sets up her easel. It’s late in the day to be starting a new piece—less than three ...