impressionism, outdoor painting, plein air painting, romanticism

Plein Air Painting: What It Means to Paint True to Nature

Plein air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing landscape painting and drawing. The practice goes back centuries, but it was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists. Their desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, coupled with the creation of transportable paint tubes ...

Emma Lu

John Constable's 'Stoke-by-Nyland' painting.