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Plein air painting is a very small niche of the art world. For many years Plein air paintings/drawings were considered studies for larger studio works. J.M.W. Turner was always in the outdoor studying the effects of light and other natural forces through his small quick almost abstract drawings and paintings. Today these pieces are viewed as works of art and I would argue some of his best work. He did his work almost 100 years before the French Impressionists! The list of artists that worked outside is long and very honorable. My choice to paint in Plein air is not to be on that list but because I love the outdoors.
Since the time my mom would tell us kids to go play in the yard, through the years of wondering around in fields and woods, playing in creeks, swimming and fishing in quarries, playing baseball, football and basketball in the local schoolyards, swinging a golf club on courses to setting up my easel and painting what I see in front of me...the outdoors have been where I spend most of my days.
Plein air painting has a small but very loyal following in which I am a committed member.
To what genre of the art world are you committed and why?
