"Plein air," or "open air" is a style of landscape drawing and painting defined by the painter's process: the painter goes outside into the landscape and paints what he or she sees with no photographs, projected images or other tools as an aid. The story a plein air artist tells in their art is a story about the wind, the light, the sounds, the color, the energy, the season, the weather and the sight of each landscape.
Through prose, humor, photography and conversation, "plein air sketches" tells stories from the landscape of daily life, much like plein air sketches tell stories about the landscapes they represent.
For my real plein air sketches, and other drawings, photographs and paintings, and perhaps even a poem or two, visit my art blog: Of Light and Shadow.
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