Plein Eire Administrator's Blog (46)

Not really what its all about but of course, everyone is curious to see which ones the judges chose.

Here are images of ten winning paintings from Art in the Open 2013.

Festival photo selection: …

Croatia is the latest to be added to the list of countries from which artists will be heading to Art in the Open in 8 weeks time. Marc Dalessio lives in Zagreb and his website is well worth a look. Marc is giving one of the workshops at this year's festival. His workshop group is…

           Hot off the press is this new book by Plein Eire member, Lori Putnam:…

Details of the 2013 season courses at the famous Burren Painting Centre, run for many years by Mrs. Chris O'Neill based in Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare are now available HERE. Continuing a tradition begun by Chris O'Neill's late father, The Burren Painting Centre has been…

Limerick Art Society 70th anniversary year

““THE COURAGE TO BE CREATIVE”

NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 2012

We have had two very successful workshops – Our watercolour

workshop hosted by university of limerick and our printermakers

workshop.

Watch out for news of repeats of both of these, highly

recommended! Check out Facebook for pictures.

FANTASTIC NEWS FOR LIMERICK – its…

Wexford's Quick Draw event, 'WET PAINT!' takes place as part of the Art in the Open 2012 festivities on Saturday 4th August from 1 to 3pm at the South Main Street between Henrietta Street and King Street. The event will be in aid of Wexford Women's Refuge and costs €5 to…

Great sunny day in quiet Carne Harbour last Sunday and here are some snaps...

Guerilla warfare...George deciding his tactics...

Frank Hallinan Flood racing against the tide in case he gets, well...flooded.…

Here's how one plein air artist expresses his opinion....

If you want to skip the fiscal babble and hyperbole, click on the video to 13 minutes in for the interview with artist Alex Schaefer.

Click link for story: …

The first satellite pictures of the loony landing.... Jane & Louise painting out at the Plein Air Convention, a trip of a lifetime to the Red Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada...  Here's Jane - looking for nuggets?

'Pruscilla' - Her pastel…

The Art Hand is a new art school that runs intensive and challenging art courses in painting, photography, film-making, stained glass, ceramics and more. The Art Hand is located on the cliffs in an area of great natural beauty called the Copper Coast near Bunmahon in County Waterford. The art courses take place in a custom-built cottage that is connected to an ultra modern home with polished concrete floors and a grass roof. Accommodation and food is provided for course…

A belated 'Happy Birthday' to all, as…

Posted by Eve Widermann of 'Cork Drink & Draw' group...

"Just got the following mail, please contact Derry (email below) if you're interested: 

The reason I am contacting you is in relation to a Feature Film that is possibly going to be shot in Cork City by an American Production Company in June 2012. I am based in Cork, will be working with them on this film and I am searching to find a Landscape Artist that would be interested in possibly getting their…

Here's a blog by Eric Michaels on painting without an initial drawing; the advantages and method used. 

http://enpleinairpro.com/EnPleinZone/newsletters/oct11.html

In it, Michaels talks about carving out the subject (2 swans) by painting the background.

This seemed apt because anyone who watched the Art in the Open 2011 video will have seen Lori Putnam painting a crowd scene on Main Street,…

This Friday 23rd is Culture Night to encourage public engagement with the arts as well as a sort of celebration of anything and everything that is going on.

'Artists in the Open' a photographic exhibition, features photos of artists at work during last month's Art in the Open plein air festival and opens at 7pm in Wexford Library. The Library has events running from 6pm to 9pm.

Meanwhile, Plein Eire members Kev Freeney, Paul Maloney and Tony Robinson will be…

Was there ever such a summer with so impressive a selection  or art courses boasting the array of talent as in Ireland in 2011?

What a paradox - the wiser I get, the more I realise how little I know.  

So if you haven't signed up at one of these courses to improve your artistic skills or to broaden your creativity, there are few excuses.

Several specifically plein air courses are listed on our 'Events' section given by artists such as Fergal Flanagan, Tom King (voted…

Watching a BBC programme on British landscape painting at the weekend I came across a new word. Well, new to me...."Stoffage".

Rather like 'en plein air' these things sound much grander in French, don't they?

- or should that be 'en francais'?

Anyway, it turns out 'stoff-ah -je' is what landscape painters call figures in a landscape going about their ordinary daily business - usually that is to say peasants dressed in peasant garb and…

Today Plein Eire achieved a landmark 300 members - as easy as falling off a cliff!"  .

That may be a derisory number by the standards of Facebook or The National Lottery, but everyone here has a genuine shared interest. More than merely owning a computer or each wishing for a million euro, we have something in common, something rather…