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	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.
PLEIN AIR PAINTOUTS 2010

	January 31 Fletcher's Boathouse Washington, DC	February 28 Historic Georgetown Washington, DC	March 28 Great Falls, VA	April 25 Burkittsville, MD
	May 13    Green Springs Garden Alexandria, VA	May 30    Manassas Battlefield Park, VA	June 27    Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens Washington, DC	July 25    Belle Haven Marina, Alexandria, VA
	August 29    Middleburg, VA	September 16    Museum of Shenandoah Valley Winchester, VA	September 26    Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge Laurel, MD	October 31    Sky Meadow State Park VA
	November 28    Quiet Waters Park Annapolis, MD
PLEIN AIR PAINTOUT ARCHIVES  2009  >
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