Now is the season to get outside.  The weather is perfect for outdoor activities—outdoor painting being one of them.  And there are artists with the ability to paint outside with achingly beautiful results (unfortunately I am not one of them but it doesn’t stop me from trying).  En plein air is the act of painting outdoors, enabling an artist to capture the changing details of light and weather.  With the invention of tube paint in 1841, artists were able to carry their supplies.  A pochade box is used to make painting outdoors more convenient by organizing equipment as if a …continue reading