Plein air Magazine Newsletter 10/10/12

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Richard Lindenberg, the national sales manager/supplies for PleinAir magazine, lecturing during the event in San Luis Obispo
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Richard Lindenberg, the national sales manager/supplies for PleinAir magazine, lecturing during the event in San Luis Obispo	Lecture by Lindenberg in San Luis Obispo, CA Last Wednesday evening during the 2012 Plein Air Festival in San Luis Obispo, California, PleinAir magazine staff member Richard Lindenberg gave an informative and inspiring lecture titled "How We Paint." It was one of the highlights of the event, which took place from September 30 through October 7, 2012.  [read more]
Dan Schultz painting in Sonoma County, California. Photo by Sarah Snider Schultz	10th Annual Festival in Sonoma, CA "The 10th Annual Sonoma Plein Air Festival [October 2-6, 2012] started this morning with artists checking in at the historic Sonoma plaza," Dan Schultz reported early last week. "The temperature got close to 100 degrees, so finding shady painting locations was high on my list of criteria." Find out more about this important annual event in California. [read more]
Writer Bob Bahr paints on Governors Island in New York after interviewing Yuka Imata for an upcoming profile article.	PleinAir Contributor Painted During an Interview  Bob Bahr writes for PleinAir magazine about both contemporary artists and influential historic masters. He recently interviewed Yuka Imata on Governors Island, New York, for an upcoming article and was inspired to paint the view.  [read more]
Pictured, from left, are Ginger Bowen, Jeanne Reavis, Mary K. Forshagen, Rhonda McKay, and Peggy Kingsbury. (Callie, McKay's dog, kept a close and critical eye on the paintings.)	Artists Gather to Paint the Colorado Aspens Sometimes the only things we need for a good story about plein air painters are a stunning location and a group of friends who traveled a distance, met up with a local artist, and painted together.  [read more]
News:
Members of the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society at work on the Wasniewski farm (left to right): Meredith Fahey, Jennifer Holmes, and Nancy Schroeder.	Connecticut Artists Help Celebrate Family Farm Members of the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society (CPAPS) participated in a paint-out on the Wasniewski Family Farm in Colchester, Connecticut, to celebrate the 100th year of family ownership of the farm. This is just one of the activities through which CPAPS has demonstrated its support of farmland preservation in the state. [read more]
Marilyn Fairman's painting created near the Irondequoit Inn where the NYPAP members met	New York Painters Gather The New York Plein Air Painters recently held their first statewide retreat, at the Irondequoit Inn in the Southern Adirondack Park in upstate New York. Artists came from the Thousand Islands, Catskills, Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley, Adirondack, and Central Leatherstocking regions. [read more]
Charles Muench's new book	Books & Catalogs From Artists We frequently receive copies of books and exhibition catalogs from artists, many of which are self-published through websites like Blurb.com and Lulu.com. Here's information about a couple of publications we've received recently.  [read more]
The WDSE crew filming artists Scott Lloyd Anderson, left, and Neil Sherman	Video of Plein Air Painters Wins Award WDSE, a public TV station in Duluth, Minnesota, recently won a regional Emmy Award for its half-hour program on the Grand Marais Art Colony's 2011 plein air festival. Find out which artists were featured. [read more]
Awards:
Kirk Larsen with the painting that selected for a purchase award	Larsen Receives Purchase Award in Connecticut "I am pleased and honored my plein air painting was selected to receive the Museum Purchase Award at the 33rd Annual International maritime art show at the Gallery At Mystic Seaport," says Kirk Larsen. Find out more about Larsen's recent recognitions.  [read more]
Events:
A crowd attending the opening of a previous 6" Square Exhibition at the Randy Higbee Gallery in Orange County, CA	The Third 6" Squared Exhibition & Sale The Randy Higbee Gallery in Orange County, California, is accepting applications for the third in a series of exhibitions and sales of paintings measuring 6" x 6". Nationally known artists will once again be presenting their work in this popular show; the application deadline is November 15, and the opening date is December 8. [read more]
Exhibits:
One of Michael Duane's paintings included in the SouthWind Gallery exhibition	Paint Topeka, Kansas Artwork by 70 regional artists who took part in the SouthWind Gallery's latest plein air juried art competition are currently on display at the gallery in Topeka, Kansas. Those paintings are also included in a new 120-page book titled Topeka: A Great Arts Town. Find out more about this exhibition and catalog. [read more]
"Mt. Madison," by Erik Koeppel, oil, 30 x 48 in. .	Erik Koeppel in New Hampshire Museum Show It's not often that paintings by a contemporary artist are hung alongside historic masterpieces, but that's what will be happening at the Jackson Historical Society in Jackson, New Hampshire. Five of Erik Koeppel's paintings and two of his drawings are included in the exhibition. Koeppel also demonstrates his techniques in a new DVD (www.hudsonriverdvd.com). [read more]
British artists who are members of the Plein Air Brotherhood (from left to right): Adebanji Alade, John Dobbs, Karl Terry, David Pilgrim, Ken Howard, Roy Connelly, and Antony Bridge. Howard is not a member of the Plein Air Brotherhood but is one of the most distinguished artists in England.	The Plein Air Brotherhood 2nd Annual Exhibition A group of British plein air painters who formed a bond of camaraderie and mutual support call themselves the Plein Air Brotherhood (PAB). They will present their second exhibition at the A & K Wilson Gallery Ltd gallery in Hertfordshire, England during the month of October.  [read more]
Sheila Thornton painting in Western Pennsylvania	Florida Artist Paints Pennsylvania Florida artist Sheila Thornton is currently exhibiting her paintings of the Pennsylvania landscape at the Allegory Gallery in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, in the southwestern region of the state. This presentation will be followed by an exhibition of Thornton's paintings of Florida in Sarasota, Florida.  [read more]
Artist Profile:
Kami Polzin Mendlik painting on location	Intuition Informed by Training In the November, 2012 digital edition of PleinAir magazine, Minnesota artist Kami Mendlik explains how her subconscious response to subjects is sometimes as motivating as her direct observations of nature.  [read more]