Plein Air Painting

On Instagram,  Paul T Levin  asks : "James, you did a video about plein air nocturnes a while back where you talked about good lights b...

In a new YouTube video  I show how I painted this moody morning scene in gouache by sacrificing detail and emphasizing light effects. My go...

A replica of The Spirit of St. Louis comes in for a landing just past the tower at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome . Ken Cassens is at the contr...

This man was sitting by himself at the diner. I liked the cool colors of the walls and his jeans, in contrast to the warm-colored notes of h...

 Urban plein-air painter Pete "The Street" Brown shares his thoughts as he paints a London cityscape. ( Link to YouTube )  He ta...

In 1859, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) organized a painting expedition in the high country of the Rocky Mountains. He sought out the help of...

Henry Wheeler’s barn has a horse weathervane. The electrical line goes to a small electric milker.  I've sat in the hayloft on a summer ...

Olana, the home of landscape painter Frederic Church has installed a  live skycam on its tower. Called " Olana Eye ," it lets anyo...

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900, oil sketch showing the top of one palm tree, with a glorious crown of palm fronds, beside a pair...

John Singer Sargent, Pavement of St. Mark's , 1898 In late-nineteenth-century Venice, worshippers and tourists had to share St. Mark...

In this new Youtube video  I sketch of a pile of snow along a country road using gouache and watercolor. I start in watercolor, applying the...