Paint or draw outside with friends! Bring an easel or your sketch book. Share the enjoyment! Be out in all seasons. And go home with a work of art to hang on your wall or enter in a show.

Meet people who love art and love to paint/draw outdoors in Virginia, D.C., and Maryland. Let's get together to paint! We can talk about our favorite places and share info about Plein Air events in surrounding areas.

Oil, acrylic or water color, it's all good. Pencil, charcoal, pen and ink. We can do it all!

En Plein Air means "in the open air" (French), and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors (compliments wikipedia). Also from Wikipedia: "French Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir advocated en plein air painting, and much of their work was done outdoors."

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    Nancy Nancy commented on Brookside Gardens
    Saturday at 5:45 PM
    Nancy

    "The azalea colors were gone today, but there is always something to paint at Brookside Gardens. The weather was perfect today!"

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    Saturday at 2:57 PM
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    Steve Moen Steve Moen commented on a photo
    May 11 at 5:43 PM

    "Yeah Tom, Didn't like the way my original composition was going so move my easel 20 yds back and 20 yds to the right painting the foreground to the river from a different vantage point. Agree Nancy, lots of different interpretations this week."

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    Tom Semmes Tom Semmes commented on a photo
    May 11 at 3:20 PM

    "This is wonderful. I love seeing how you changed it"

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    Nancy Nancy commented on a photo
    May 11 at 1:44 PM

    "Wow! It's lovely. Each of us comes up with such different interpretations!"

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    Nancy Nancy commented on a photo
    May 11 at 1:42 PM

    "Thanks, all! It was a pleasant day to paint, even though cloudy."

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    Ramez Ramez RSVPed Yes for Brookside Gardens
    May 11 at 1:17 PM
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    May 12
    Brookside Gardens
    Saturday 9:00 AM at Brookside Gardens
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    Steve Moen Steve Moen commented on a photo
    May 11 at 9:30 AM

    "Nice work Nancy. You really moved this along."

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    Steve Moen Steve Moen commented on a photo
    May 11 at 9:29 AM

    "Like the color and shapes in this one - nice angles and color juxtaposition."

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    Steve Moen Steve Moen commented on a photo
    May 11 at 9:27 AM

    "Nice painting Noe!"

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The Plein Air Painters Meetup http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/9/e/e/global_4703022.jpeg
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Founded Mar 14, 2008
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