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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A painting by Sandy Hall, a Greenfield artist and retired art teacher. Hall is the guest artist at the Southside Art League in October, showing a collection of paintings in the Off Broadway Gallery.

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 ...