Plein Air

Plein air painting is outdoor on-location painting. It is different from sketching or other indoor life work.

I think it is the best thing in the world.
NYC in particular is a wonderfully vibrant place to paint, like nowhere else.

All these paintings were completed on-location.  I do not re-work plein air paintings in the studio; they are very much about the immediate time and space when they were created.

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