With portable easels, paints and canvases in tow, more than 30 local artists filled various nooks and crannies in downtown Cary on Saturday to paint "en plein air." With portable easels, paints and ...

After a morning of plein air painting, retired engineer Walter Pasko, 86, packs up his handmade portable easel and tool box in downtown West Stockbridge. Pasko, who lives in Lanesborough, is a member ...

The 19th century was the great age of plein-air landscape painting, when artists left their studios and took to the outdoors to capture not a romanticized ­vision of nature but the real thing. To help ...

The workshop will begin indoors with a presentation, demonstration and painting time. Day two will allow students to continue their painting indoors, or outdoors en plein air! (weather permitting) ...

The first time I saw plein air painters doing their thing near Traverse City, we were cycling the Leelanau Peninsula and were taking a break at picturesque Fishtown. A dozen painters had easels set up ...