PleinAir Magazine
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PleinAir Magazine publisher Eric Rhoads delves into the world of plein air painting and the outdoor painting movement.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Outdoor painting becomes practical Arts listening, with working artists making light, value, composition, and observation easier to hear.
Plein Air Art Podcast keeps its Arts coverage close to the working habits of painters who study landscape, light, and direct observation. The interviews are strongest when they stay at the easel, where choices about value, color, composition, brushwork, and style become part of…
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A practical value talk that turns studio conversation into usable painting advice.
Plein Air Podcast 270 keeps returning to a plain but useful point: value contrast is what keeps a painting from going flat. C.W. Mundy and Eric Rhodes talk through halftones, key ranges, and the need for brighter notes and deep darks even in a mid-key setup.
A travel-heavy art talk that swaps warnings for what was seen on the ground.
Eric Rhodes turns a plein-air travelogue into a close look at China, and the strongest stretch comes from the gap between the warnings he begins with and the place he says he found.
A practical plein air conversation about color, value, and what survives once the painting comes indoors.
The discussion follows Joseph McGurl through a practical plein air problem: how color, darks, and brightness stay coherent when a painting made outdoors is later viewed indoors.
A conversational plein air interview that is strongest when Tischler turns to teaching, commissions, and the practical side of painting careers.
Episode 263 keeps its attention on outdoor painting, then opens into the everyday mechanics of an art career: teaching, selling work, and handling commissions.
A plainspoken conversation about craft, medium shifts, and learning by doing.
Larry Moore's visit stays most interesting when he talks about what happens to the maker while moving between pastel, oil, gouache, airbrush, scratchboard, and amberlith.
A warm, technique-first conversation about learning to paint from the shoulder.
Eric Rhodes starts with a bit of housekeeping about Valentine's Day and spring in Texas, then the episode gets to the useful part: Rich Gallego's advice on drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist.
A grounded conversation about plein air painting, watercolor, and why working outside can sharpen the work.
Episode 255 keeps its focus on Richard Sneary's plainspoken view of plein air painting and watercolor. The advice is simple enough to stick: sketch a little, work outside, keep learning, and stay with a medium that still has room to teach back.
A practical painter's conversation about struggle, standards, and why an easy win may not count.
An interview with Alvaro Castanet stays focused on the hardest part of painting: the fight, the standard, and the sense that the work has to be earned.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Jennifer Dasal narrates art history's overlooked lives, from Picasso's police file to Rauschenberg and Twombly's romance.
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament interview artists about their materials, biography, and process.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins interview film crew about the craft behind specific shots.
Robert Bound interviews artists and reviews new film, book, and music releases with critics.
Sound art from places, recordings, and memory.
Eric Rhodes opens with his usual welcome and a few updates from the Plein Air Podcast.
Eric Rhodes opens with a summer check in.
Carl Bretzke explains how sunrise and sunset painting depends on the physics of atmosphere, not guesswork, and says he learned it through textbooks, Google, and repeated field study.
Harley Brown, painting for more than 70 years, traces his path from a childhood drawing his father made of Ronald Coleman to a decision at age seven to become an artist.
Eric Rhodes brings together Jill Stephanie Wagner, Albert Handel, Aaron Schur, and William A.
Eric Rhodes records episode 259 of the Plein Air Podcast live with Scott Christensen, whom he calls a “legend” and a “rock star painter.” Christensen describes a major July show in Kerrville, Texas with Kwong Ho and says the project took about four and a half years and will include 53 paintings.
Plein Air podcast episode 243 features Eric Rhodes with wildlife and plein air painter Paul Kratter, who describes how a Sonoma plein air event pushed him out of illustration and into outdoor painting.
Kyle Ma says he began studying with Elizabeth Locke in Austin at age 10 after moving from Taiwan, where museum visits and books on Velazquez, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Impressionists first pushed him toward art.
Eric Rhodes opens Episode 252 with Jennifer McChristian, the last year’s Plein Air Salon grand prize winner and a cover artist for Plein Air Magazine.
Debra Hughes traces her path from Indianapolis and Indiana University to advertising work at Cochran Chase Livingston in Newport Beach, then to painting full time.
Colley Whisson says a soccer injury, a failed early plein air outing, and three years of drawing shaped his oil-painting career.
James Gurney and Eric Rhodes spend much of Plein Air Art Podcast episode 264 on why artists leave the studio, from Albert Bierstadt’s field notes to Gurney’s own parking-lot paintings and Hudson River ice-yacht sketches.
Guido Frick tells Eric Rhodes how Sergei Bongard pushed him to think in rules, not formulas, and why color, temperature, and value come first.
Richard Sneary, a former architect and architectural illustrator, explains why so many architects become watercolor painters and how Curtis Biesinger at the University of Kansas pushed him toward washes, sketching, and presentation work.
Eric Rhodes frames episode 257 of the Plein Air Art Podcast around Joe Paquette, the painter he calls an “extraordinary artist” and one of his deepest thinkers on art.
Nathan Fowkes says his career changed because he spent 60, 70, or 80 hours a week making tiny studies, then used that habit to survive an accidental color-keys assignment at DreamWorks on The Prince of Egypt.
Eric Rhodes opens Plein Air Art Podcast episode 241 by introducing Catherine Statz, a painter shaped by Utah, Brazil, Glacier Park, Russia, and the red-rock West.
Eric Rhodes welcomes C.W.
Eric Rhoads shares his eye-opening trip to China, revealing a massive plein air painting movement driven by mandatory art education in schools.
Episode 265 features Joseph McGurl.
Eric Rhodes opens episode 263 with New Zealand artist Andrew Tischler.
Eric Rhodes interviews internationally renowned oil painter Amy Erickson about her creative practice, upcoming book (Plein Air Techniques for Artists, featuring 50 contributing artists), and the plein air movement's evolution.
Larry Moore traces a career that began with painting outdoors in Florida in 1984 and shifted after his first Carmel plein air event in 2002.
When disaster hits your creative community, you realize what truly matters.
James Hart Dyke says his painting life started at age eight, after seeing a John Constable study at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Eric Rhodes interviews Haidee-Jo Summers, a UK-based oil painter, at the Plein Air Convention.
Cindy Barron's secret: she doesn't choose between mediums—she blends them together.
Rich Gallego recounts his journey from self-taught artist to internationally respected plein air painter.