Plein Air Art Podcast

Artist and art-lover Benny Sanders explains how to grow your Instagram account, and more. Check out https://www.outdoorpainter.com/original-podcast-episodes/ to listen to all of our episodes, including interviews with Joseph Zbukvic, Anne Blair Brown, Joe Pacquet, Nancie King Mertz, Alvaro Castagnet, Albert Handell, and many more!

UK artist Haidee-Jo Summers tells us about her brushwork techniques for plein air, and much more! Check out OutdoorPainter.com to listen to all of our episodes, including interviews with Joseph Zbukvic, Anne Blair Brown, Joe Pacquet, Nancie King Mertz, Alvaro Castagnet, Albert Handell, and many more!

Discover the story of Sharon Bamber, who walked -and painted - 1,000 miles with a donkey across the mountains of France and Spain on the Way of Saint James. Check out OutdoorPainter.com to listen to all of our episodes, including interviews with Joseph Zbukvic, Anne Blair Brown, Joe Pacquet, Nancie King Mertz, Alvaro Castagnet, Albert Handell, and many more!

Eric Rhoads interviews Scott Gellatly, who is both an artist and the Product Manager for Gamblin Artist’s Oil Colors. Listen below to learn more about paint than you thought you needed to know — especially if you want your paintings to last for future generations — and much more. Check out OutdoorPainter.com to listen to all of our episodes, including interviews with Joseph Zbukvic, Anne Blair Brown, Joe Pacquet, Nancie King Mertz, Alvaro Castagnet, Albert Handell, and many more!

Eric Rhoads interviews artist (and mentalist / magician!) Ken Salaz. You’ll learn the anatomy of painting a waterfall, the tradition of seekers of beauty, how Salaz became a non-criminal pick-pocket, and much more. Check out OutdoorPainter.com to listen to all of our episodes, including interviews with Joseph Zbukvic, Anne Blair Brown, Joe Pacquet, Nancie King Mertz, Alvaro Castagnet, Albert Handell, and many more!

Eric Rhoads welcomes California landscape painter Michael Obermeyer, whose paintings are in the U.S. Air Force Historical Art Collection in the Smithsonian Institute and the Pentagon. Check out OutdoorPainter.com to listen to all of our episodes, including interviews with Joseph Zbukvic, Anne Blair Brown, Joe Pacquet, Nancie King Mertz, Alvaro Castagnet, Albert Handell, and many more!

Eric Rhoads interviews Linda Glover Gooch, who takes us into her experiences of painting and life, including a topic that’s never been discussed on this podcast before. Themes include practicing art, painting shadows, thumbnail images, composition, the importance of American Women Artists, and more. Check out OutdoorPainter.com to listen to all of our episodes, including interviews with Joseph Zbukvic, Anne Blair Brown, Joe Pacquet, Nancie King Mertz, Alvaro Castagnet, Albert Handell, and many more!

At the Publisher’s Invitational in the Adirondack Mountains, Eric Rhoads welcomed 86 artists to participate in a lively forum. This “summer camp for artists” is located one hour from the Canadian border, where artists gathered to paint together, see old friends, make new ones, learn and be inspired. See OutdoorPainter.com for all episodes, including interviews with Joseph Zbukvic and many more!

Eric Rhoads interviews Rosemary Swimm, the Executive Director of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. Even if you’re not in California, you’ll want to listen to this podcast to see what they’re doing for the plein air community at large, and how you can be a part of it, too. Check out OutdoorPainter.com to listen to all of our episodes, including interviews with Joseph Zbukvic, Anne Blair Brown, Joe Pacquet, Nancie King Mertz, Alvaro Castagnet, Albert Handell, and many more!

Eric Rhoads interviews landscape artist Paul Kratter. They discuss close encounters with Edgar Payne paintings; art advice for the true beginner; The catalyst that "slammed him in the head" and inspired him to begin painting en plein air the next day; What "five value" means for artists and how knowing your values will help you make color choices; Why he's willing to let passing children paint on his canvas while he's working en plein air; How and why he was carried out by helicopter from a plein air trip

Eric Rhoads interviews three organizers from Ireland’s prominent plein air event, “Art in the Open.” Listen to discover how it differs from plein air festivals in the U.S, and how it expanded to an international event. Art In The Open is the largest plein air painting festival in Europe. Now in its 12th year, the festival has grown to a 10-day, internationally recognized event with 200 artists taking part. It attracts some of the best outdoor painters from around the globe.

Eric Rhoads interviews John Poon in this week’s PleinAir Podcast, in which they discuss: a detailed overview of his four-step program for painting a landscape, for his students and in his own practice; How rejections are part of being a professional artist and how to push through them toward success; How you know if you're ready to teach painting to others and understanding classroom psychology

Eric Rhoads interviews JR Baldini, Executive Director of the IPAP. "We're not looking to teach someone how to draw a tree," says Balidini. "We're looking to give people the confidence to use their creativity and to encourage them to use their creativity through their filters instead of trying to fix themselves because of all the things they've learned in their life...and I don't think there's any better way to do that other than being out in the atmosphere."

Eric Rhoads interviews modern impressionist Cody DeLong. DeLong shares the six questions he tells students to ask themselves, his close encounter with a mountain lion, and more: How he went from working as an airbrush artist to becoming a professional plein air painter; What it means to paint in the style of "modern impressionism"; How he balances his world of art with other areas of his life

Six of America’s top plein air painters (Shelby Keefe, Aimee Erickson, Randy Sexton, Jason Sacran, Larry Moore, and Charlie Hunter) rode the rails over 2,700 miles to the Plein Air Convention, stopping to paint in small towns along the route of Amtrak’s endangered Southwest Chief. Listen now for a funny, wide-ranging discussion about the practicalities, pitfalls, challenges, and triumphs of traveling by rail on a painting adventure. All aboard!