So this weekend should be interesting! I am competing (for the first time ever in live competition) in the Milwaukee Domes Art Festival Plein Air competition. For those you who don't know, "En Plein Air" means "in open air" and it's those fancy, anti-shave french artist's coined term basically meaning "painting outside." It's always taken place, but really got popular when the impressionists started to come along,( and paint started being available in tubes) really relying on accurate depictions of light to portray the subject. That guy Claude Monet did all his pretty haystacks and water lilies "en plein air."
So anyways, 12 (i think) artists will be taking to the open air Friday, Saturday and Sunday to create some landscape painting and vying for a variety of prizes. So that's my plan for this weekend, paint some Wisconsin and make some money...on one...BREAK!
And yes...I do paint real things occasionally.
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