In the 1960s, as cultural revolutions swept across the nation, Congress passed important environmental laws to protect America's enchanting natural landscapes, among them Rocky Mountain National Park, which was the last stop for the tenth edition of PACE. The day provided wonderful moments for the artists. The weather was clement and provided the breathtaking colors typical of Colorado: blue skies, lush nature with its colorful flowers blooming as a result of ...
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From the verdant nature of The City of Golden and Eldorado National Park to the sedimentary rock formations of the "Garden of Gods": the penultimate stop of the Plein Air Convention and Expo (PACE). Garden of Gods is an extraordinary nature park characterized by red-colored and uniquely textured rocks among which emerges, at the southern end of the Park, the "Balanced Rock": a peculiar formation due to erosive processes that, by ...
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The second stop on this incredible adventure at the Plein Air Convention and Expo took PACERS to Eldorado Canyon State Park: a hidden treasure among the towering sandstone cliffs that are interspersed to the artists' eye by the perspective trees whose silhouettes cadence the mountain's hard edges. Trees were the main theme covered in most of the daily demonstration sessions, and they are artist Steve Curry's favorite subject. Curry maintains that ...
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WOW!...what an incredible day. Only now I can understand, concretely, the enthusiasm with which I have always been told about Plein Air Convention and Expo (PACE). Imagine being in a charming little town with a typical Western flavor -for those born in the 1980s it is the perfect representation of the American Western- cadenced by the quiet and surrounded by mountains. The favorite subject of the hundreds and hundreds of artists who ...
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Celebrating the official opening of the 10th edition of the Plein Air Convention and Expo (PACE) was the presentation of the Lifetime Achivemet Awards that took place in the evening and was preceded by country music by a musical trio consisting of a banjo, a guitar and a cello: "quite an unusual element the latter for country music," my new friend who knows her way around country music confided to ...
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It kicked off, the pre-convention session of the 10th Plein Air Convention and Expo (FACE): "the Woodstock of plein air painting," as defined by Eric Rhoads and his team, Streamline Publishing. Protagonist of the entire day, with both theoretical and practical sessions, was Lori Putnam who addressed the central theme of plein air painting, that of light, entitled: "The Light Changed" with which she highlighted the potential of light and its ...
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From Miami Niche's collaboration with Outdoor Painter, Streamline Publishing Inc.'s web magazine dedicated to plein air painting, this month's interview with Stephanie Hartshorn: the osmotic relationship between human beings and architecture. Click on the link below to read the interview: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/plein-air-painter-big-shapes/
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It will be the sunny mountainous landscapes of Colorado that will cadence the days of PACE: the world's largest event entirely dedicated to plein air painting, capable of gathering a more than corpulent number of faculty members -over one hundred- and hundreds and hundreds of artists devoted to plein air landscape painting. Painting that will not, however, be limited to the depiction of the beautiful landscapes that will serve as ...
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There is only one day left to announce the winner of the prestigious "Bennett Prize”: the competition established in 2018 by Dott. Elaine Melotti Schmidt and Steven Allan Bennett, now in its third year. The pair of collectors, who have been collecting paintings by contemporary women artists working in the field of figurative realism since 2010, recently donated part of the collection to the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, MI, ...
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It was Dawn Whitelaw, esteemed teacher and artist and Vice Chair of the Executive Board of the Portrait Society of America, who introduced the first faculty member of the day: Kevin Macpherson. Known for the colorful landscape paintings he makes exclusively in plein air, braving the elements of weather, Kevin Macpherson has recently become inspired by portraiture. An 'inspiration so strong that it made him one of the Signature Members ...
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