Splash! of Paint
Plein-Air Paint-In
August 16 & 17, 2025
Further details forthcoming!
Splash! of Paint
Plein-Air Paint-In
Sunday, Aug 11, 2024
9 am – 5 pm
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Come join us for a beautiful day full of inspiration! Joining is easy:
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What is Plein Air Painting? – A Definition
En plein air, a French phrase meaning "in the open air," describes the process of painting a landscape outdoors, though the phrase has also been applied to the resulting works. The term defines both a simple technical approach and a whole artistic credo: of truth to sensory reality, a refusal to mythologize or fictionalize landscape, and a commitment to the idea of the artist as creative laborer rather than exulted master. Painting in the open air is recorded as far back as the Renaissance, but it was generally done in preparation for studio painting; only in the nineteenth century, through the cumulative efforts of artists such as John Constable, Camille Corot, and Claude Monet, did painting en plein air come to stand for the ethos of modernity and fidelity to nature which it still implies. More than any other movement, it was Impressionism that became synonymous with open air painting, which is thus also associated with the attention to light and atmosphere that defined that school. Today, en plein air painting, once considered an odd affectation, is what much of the public pictures when they imagine an artist at work, and is favored by many semi-professional and amateur artists.
Source: En Plein Air - Modern Art Terms and Concepts | TheArtStory
En plein air, a French phrase meaning "in the open air," describes the process of painting a landscape outdoors, though the phrase has also been applied to the resulting works. The term defines both a simple technical approach and a whole artistic credo: of truth to sensory reality, a refusal to mythologize or fictionalize landscape, and a commitment to the idea of the artist as creative laborer rather than exulted master. Painting in the open air is recorded as far back as the Renaissance, but it was generally done in preparation for studio painting; only in the nineteenth century, through the cumulative efforts of artists such as John Constable, Camille Corot, and Claude Monet, did painting en plein air come to stand for the ethos of modernity and fidelity to nature which it still implies. More than any other movement, it was Impressionism that became synonymous with open air painting, which is thus also associated with the attention to light and atmosphere that defined that school. Today, en plein air painting, once considered an odd affectation, is what much of the public pictures when they imagine an artist at work, and is favored by many semi-professional and amateur artists.
Source: En Plein Air - Modern Art Terms and Concepts | TheArtStory
Thank you for joining us at our plein-air “happening”
2022
Congratulations to winners of our Art Prizes
Sharon Stone..........Best in Show.....$1000.00
Jessica Stepushyn ...Best Streetscape....500.00
Janet Moore...............Best Seascape.......500.00
Debra Czernecky........Best Landscape.....500.00
Marcella Strasdas.......Artistic Technique...500.00
Max Parsons...............Our Heritage...........500.00
Marcella Stradras....... People's choice.....200.00
Kathleen Schmalz....... Honorable Mention..250.00
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Splash! of Paint 2022
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