Plein Air Painters - International Plein Air Painters WORLDWIDE

J. R. Baldini, left Kathryn A McMahon, right
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Painting on the Bruce Trail today with Florida artist, Kathryn McMahon.
Yes, we had 3 layers of clothing but, the weather was quite mild with the sun out.
Kathryn's paintings in photo.

Plein Air Painter - August FEATURE IPAP member Kathy Busillo

Plein Air Painter - August FEATURE IPAP member Kathy Busillo

Plein Air Painter - IPAP April Feature artist Jose Rodrigues

Plein Air Painter - IPAP April Feature artist Jose Rodrigues

Jose Rodriguez was born in East Bernard, Texas. He's had a love of art since his childhood days and has been at it ever since. Jose currently lives in Belleview, Florida.

His work has been featured in group shows to include the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA.,Sulfolk Museum for the Arts, Sulfolk, VA. and Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA., The Villages Art Around the Square, Villages, Florida, Ocala Plein Air Painters Group Show, and with The Ocala Art Group.

His work is a permanent collection in private and public places to include the Hampton Arts Commission, Hampton, VA., the Arts and Letters Department at Old Dominion University, the Osceola County Commission building, Kissimmee, Florida and at the Growth Management Bureau Building, Ocala, Florida

Plein Air Painters - July IPAP Feature Artist Joshua Been

Joshua Been
A Statement of my Work

My paintings are one-of-a-kind pages in the visual journal of my life. Through design, my paintings are viewed best with some distance, while the brushwork brings you in for a closer look. It is the elegant randomness of form and light that I dance with, and I always attempt to do the Universe justice. I hope to remind and inspire others to take the time to really see how amazing this existence is. I am very fortunate for the gift of placing these "reminders" in to the lives of others, and will never take that gift for granted.

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Feature Plein Air Painter - Linda Warner Constantino

Linda is a professor of Illustration at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia where she teaches Watercolor for the Illustrator, the Portrait in Illustration and Illustrating the Edible. She is an avid plein air painter and on weekends and during her summers she gives private lessons and teaches a Plein Air Painting Workshop at a "green hotel" and working organic farm in Tuscany, Italy.

Her paintings have been juried into national shows and she won the Winsor Newton Award at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club. She has a special love for small "pochade" paintings of landscapes and still lives and maintains a blog about them entitled "A Passion for Small Paintings" http://lwarnerconstantino.blogspot.com. Currently she is represented by Shop SCAD Gallery and the Hilton Head Art League as well as online at her website www.lwarnerconstantino.com.

One of our members is selected as the FEATURE ARTIST for a month at International Plein Air Painters WORLDWIDE Organization.

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IPAP Feature Artist - Tina Bohlman

Plein Air Feature Member - February
Texas atist Tina Bohlman
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7th annual Great WORLDWIDE plein air Paint Out

7th annual Great WORLDWIDE plein air Paint Out

is officially set for
September 11-12-13, 2009
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Sense and Sensibility: The paintings of Patricia Woodley and Brandy Gale

Sense and Sensibility: The paintings of Patricia Woodley and Brandy Gale

Both artists explore the landscape from two different perspectives, Brandy Gale from a Plein Air (in the field) perspective and Patricia Woodley from a perspective of, "the internal landscape". Patricia Woodley is an emerging regional artist and Brandy Gale is an emerging artist who resides in Prince Edward County (Quinte's Isle.) (Neither one of them are aware of each others artistic practice.)

Dates: January 8 - February 1, 2009
Opening: Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Helen & Arch Brown Centre for the Visual Arts One Georgian Drive, Barrie, Ontario, Canada L4M 3X9

Plein Air Painter applications for Signature Membership

Images are Juried Jan 20-27 annually.

Submit 6 images 300 dpi,500 pixels on the longest side, cropped and in focus on CD/DVD All images should be of professional quality and should show only the art image, resume and a 100 word Artist Statement to the address below with a $25.00 jurying fee made out to

J. Baldini
If awarded Signature Status, you will be entitled to use IPAP after your signature, as long as you remain a paid annual member in good standing.
Also included with your status is a webpage hosted on www.i-p-a-p.com with up to 10 images
(can be changed twice a year), CV, statement and link to your own website if applicable.

If you are not a current member, please add $25.00 annual membership fee.

($50.00 total per yr - Jan 1 - Dec 31)

Images on CD/DVD must be properly focused,cropped and professional looking. Please don't send a poor quality reproduction representation, as you are being judged according to how the digital image appears
Sorry we can't accept Microsoft Word files.
Please send resume etc. as pdf file.

Please be sure we have all contact info when submitting.
All image files on CD/DVD should be listed with your name & title

Your CD/DVD should include a text caption for each image with title, medium, size.

ALL IMAGES FILES MUST START WITH YOUR LAST NAME

or we can't find identify them as yours in the editor software.

We will be unable to return CD's/DVD's and/or other info sent unless a Return, Addressed envelope with proper postage is enclosed


Please read before submitting.

Applications will be accepted between Jan 20 - 27, 2009
No application will be accepted later than these posted dates to be fair to everyone.

Applications will be juried by an IPAP Advisory Panel of IPAP members elected by the IPAP membership

All applicants will be notified in Feb

We assume artists integrity that pieces submitted are plein air and no more than 10% was altered as finishing in studio.If it doesn't appear to be plein air, the Panel will disqualify the application.


ck should be payable to

J.Baldini
P.O. Box 2332
Niagara Falls, NY 14302-2332

ONLINE,(click Here) you may pay by PAYPAL (you do not need a PAYPAL account)

Plein air painters - PAINT THE TOWN

Plein air painters - CALL to artists
Paint the Town March 2009

St. Petersburg, Florida
Deadline Dec 1, 2008

All info HERE



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Plein Air Painting - Happy 7th Birthday IPAP !

Plein Air Painting Worldwide organization International Plein Air Painters is celebrating its 7th Birthday.Help us celebrate 7 great years of bringing plein air painters together via the www.

Thanks everyone for your support,the Advisory Panel, Ambassadors, Signature Members, General Membership and especially our Charter Members who have been here from the beginning.

We value all of you as friends and creative individuals and invite you to share feedback with us always, so we can continue on the worldwide scope.

Already there are new plans for 2009 at IPAP and we'll be ready to share them at the end of the year with our year end newsletter, so make sure you have islandartist@yahoo.com in your address book to not miss out on any of the news.

Happy Birthday IPAP...
J.R. Baldini
aka Jacq
www.i-p-a-p.com

Plein Air Painters - part of the 6th annual Worldwide Paint Out

The annual Great WORLDWIDE Paint Out sponsored by International Plein Air Painters established in 2001.

Plein air painters in Hudson Valley NY,Trinidad & Tobago, Quandra Island BC Canada,Pennsylvania,Rio de Janiero, Italy,Alaska,St. Lucia,Florida,
New Hampshire,Georgia,Niagara Frontier artists took part in this event.

Photos and reports have been posted at
2008_WORLDWIDE_paintout Thank You to all organizers, sponsors and artists participating in this monumental
even held for the last 6 years in locations globally.

We look forward to the 7th WORLDWIDE Paint Out 2009

For more info on membership go to
www.i-p-a-p.com

Plein Air Painting NEWS- 65 Days to countdown

The 6th annual Great WORLDWIDE Paint out is Sept 5-7, 2009.

Niagara Falls As you know we always have the focal point of the paint out around the IPAP headquarters.
But , I'm frequently asked to come paint with other groups for the Worldwide Paint Out .
Since I'd really like to meet you all -
Send us an email to ipapmail@yahoo.com and let us know what your organization event plans are and invite IPAP Founder (me) to attend.

Sponsor my travel expenses for 1 or 2 days during the 6th WORLDWIDE Paint Out and I will attend to
present a $250.00 Award sponsored by DICK BLICK ART SUPPLY and
WE WILL HIGHLIGHT YOUR EVENT AS THE FOCAL POINT OF THE 2008 WORLDWIDE Paint Out
IF YOUR LOCATION IS SELECTED.

To sign up your group go to
WORLDWIDE PAINT OUT


OFFICIAL WORLDWIDE PAINT OUT GEAR HERE

6th WORLDWIDE Artist Paint Out
International Plein Air Painters Organization
September 5-6-7, 2008
Each participant should try for local promotion through various organizations and media in their own country, promoting themselves by tying into a WORLD EVENT.

Plein Air Painting Monhegan Island, Maine

Plein Air painting - Art workshops
J.R. Baldini
Latest newsletter about artworkshops and paintouts.
See my current newsletter Click here ->JULY BUZZ

Feel free to pass on the info to an artist friend who may be interested.

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Plein air painter - Monhegan Island workshop

Info on upcoming plein air painting on Monhegan Island
July 7-11, 2008

CLICK HERE

For more info and photos.
This workshop is limited to 15 participants

Call now at 1 800 393-7270 or email
inquiry@jrbaldini.com

Member News

Michael Chesley Johnson has been awarded a Shirl Smithson Scholarship from Oil Painters of America.

Congratulations Michael !

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International Plein Air Painters FEATURE ARTIST APRIL 2008 - Aaron Holland

International Plein Air Painters FEATURE ARTIST APRIL 2008 - Aaron Holland
Brief Bio.

Aaron is most well known for his Plein Air landscapes and his affiliation with International Plein Air Painters and Landscape Artists International. He will be hosting a stop on the "World Tour" in April at the Link Gallery in Fish Creek, WI.

Aaron is also a seasoned Instructor. He has taught workshops at numerous locations, notably at the Peninsula Art School of Fish Creek, WI since 2000. Holland is also a Charter Instructor at the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art, formerly the Barnsite Art Studio of Kewaunee, WI. He has taught regularly there since 2001. Holland's goals as an instructor and as an artist run parallel, that is: a healthy respect for nature and an observe of fundamental "truths" such as light and atmosphere, shape and value. Holland teaches an academic approach to drawing and painting and stresses the importance of understanding the basics such as accurate draughtsmanship, correct color and mixing, and calligraphic brushwork, as well as composition.


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Georgia Plein Air Painters Madison Paint Out

PLEIN AIR PAINT OUT IN MADISON GEORGIA

Saturday, May 3

Madison locations:

Madison Oaks Inn - Check-in Headquarters and painting location
Downtown Madison
Madison Morgan Cultural Center
Various Tour of Homes houses TBA (we'll provide map)

Entry Fee:

$25.00 if paid by April 15
$40.00 on day of paint out
(entry fee is not refundable)

Rain date: May 10 (not all locations available)

Details:

9:00am check-in and have canvases stamped

4:30 - 5:00pm turn in finished paintings for auction

5:30 - 6:30ish Awards, Silent Auction and Refreshments

Please make checks payable to Madison Artists Guild and mail with your contact information to: The Madison Artists Guild, PO Box 225, Madison GA 30650

Paint out is a part of the overarching spring show which is titled Georgia in Bloom Arts Festival

For more information email Karen Strelecki at kstrelecki@mac.com


INFO ON IPAP MEMBERSHIP
and SIGNATURE STATUS Applications

Plein Air Painting Video

Morgan Samuel Price

Plein Air Painting VIDEO

Another good video from AMERICAN ARTIST MAGAZINE

A Plein Air Painters website - North Carolina

I frequently search on the internet for news related to plein air painters.

Artist of Note - March 2008

Brenda Behr - North Carolina Artist

It takes one a long time to become young.-Picasso

It took me a long time to appreciate Picasso.-Behr

Once in awhile, like most other artists, I feel compelled to prove how well I can copy "reality", how real I can make my subject matter look, or I am commissioned by someone else to do this.

In a nutshell, here's what it has taken me my life as an artist to conclude... The older I get, the more I know that children know more than I do what drawing and painting are all about. It's about seeing and showing green the way we saw it the first time. It's about seeing and depicting our mothers, the way we saw her for the first time. It's about first impressions and about expressing those first impressions.

Further than this, it's about showing our first, most impacting impressions using value, form, and color in a way that is aesthetically appealing.

When I can do the aforementioned and do it consistently, I will consider myself a successful artist. Until then, I'm enjoying the journey, and especially enjoying it when someone else finds pleasure in my perspective. I hope that you'll enjoy my views.

Brenda Behr Artist

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