PLEIN AIR PAINTOUTS
En Plein Air is French for "in open air" or outdoors. Painting landscapes on location rather than in the studio can be traced to the middle of the 17th century and earlier. The French impressionists called it "le sur motif" or "in front of the subject". American landscape painters started painting landscape studies in oil in the early 19th century and referred to them as "nature studies" or "painting on site" or "on location". It was not until the end of the 20th century that painting in nature became known as "plein air", although the term in modern day France refers to open air parks.
Harpers Ferry	APRIL 27, 2008    HARPERS FERRY, WV
Painting Shanendoah Valley	APRIL 8, 2008    MUSEUM OF THE SSHENANDOAH VALLEY
Waterford	MARCH 30, 2008    WATERFORD, VA
Georgetown	FEBRUARY 24, 2007    GEORGETOWN   WASHINGTON, DC
River Work	FEBRUARY 12, 2008    FOUNDERS PARK   OLD TOWN ALEXANDRIA, VA
Flectcher's Boathouse	JANUARY 27, 2008    FLETCHERS BOATHOUSE   WASHINGTON, DC
Old Tavern, Great Falls	NOVEMBER 25, 2007    GREAT FALLS PARK   POTOMAC, MD
Sky Meadows State Park	OCTOBER 28, 2006    SKY MEADOWS STATE PARK    PARIS, VA
Riverbend, Great Falls, VA	SEPTEMBER 30, 2007    GREAT FALLS, VA
Belmont	AUGUST 26, 2007    FREDERICKSBURG, VA
Keniworth Gardens, View from Boardwalk	JUNE 24, 2007    KENILWORTH GARDENS   WASHINGTON, DC
National Cathedral	MAY 26, 2007    NATIONAL CATHEDRAL   WASHINGTON, DC
Washington Grove	APRIL 29, 2007    WASHINGTON GROVE, MD
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