Plein Air Art Podcast

In this week’s PleinAir Podcast, Eric Rhoads interviews Oklahoma artist Gay Faulkenberry, who is a Signature Member of the Plein Air Painters of America. In this educational conversation, Faulkenberry tells us how joining PAPA was a “turning point” in her career. She also explains why drawing skills are “paramount” to being a skilled plein air painter, the importance of planning your palette and keeping your colors in the same place for color mixing, and much more!

Be inspired today when you listen to this enlightening conversation between Publisher Eric Rhoads and his featured guest, Peggy Immel, who shares her artistic journey of being a stay-at-home mom, moving to Taos, overcoming plein air fears, and more! She also shares that it’s common for new plein air painters to have fears of painting in public. Her advice: "Just get out and do it!" She adds that, "If you're a painter, you're just going to be committed to painting."

Publisher Eric Rhoads interviews American Impressionist Michael Holter in this week’s PleinAir Podcast. Holter shares why painting outdoors is a “vital” part of his artistic process, even when he’s back in the art studio, and much more!

Laurie Kersey’s work includes the dramatic coastline and quiet countryside of California through still lifes, floral, figure, and equine paintings. In this PleinAir Podcast with Eric Rhoads, Kersey explains why she considers drawing to be the foundation of painting, the fact that her signature is not a stamp, and more.

In the latest PleinAir Podcast, Eric Rhoads interviews Susan Nicholas Gephart. Listen in as Gephart shares with us the importance of being a part of a community, advertising and marketing one's art, having a system of support, why she doesn’t use a brush to mix her colors, and much more!

John Pototschnik (Poe-toe-sh-nick) is an Art Renewal Center Associate Living Master, a Signature member of the Oil Painters of America and a Master Signature member of the Outdoor Painters Society. Listen to this exclusive interview between Pototschnik and Publisher Eric Rhoads in the latest PleinAir Art Podcast. Hear what Pototschnik has to say about becoming an artist (including how important marketing has been in his path), his limited palette and color choices, and more!

Mario Robinson is known for his watercolor paintings, but in this PleinAir Art Podcast, he takes us further into his processes for painting en plein air. Publisher Eric Rhoads asks Robinson to tell us more about his strategy for plein air, including painting the figure in outdoor scenes. Robinson also talks about what it was like to serve in the U.S. Army for four years.

Publisher Eric Rhoads interviews Suzie Baker in this week’s PleinAir Art Podcast. Baker and her work can be seen at a large number of plein air events. Learn what she says are the pros and cons of having a busy schedule as an artist, and how she keeps track of it all. She also talks about how she and her husband moved to the Middle East, which was “like hitting a reset button” in her life. From there, she planned painting trips with other women and painted outdoors in places such as India.

In this week’s PleinAir Art Podcast with Eric Rhoads, listen to a riveting conversation with watercolor landscape artist Keiko Tanabe. Tanabe tells us one of the best things she did early in her career to help her path to success, what it was like to quit her "day job" and become a full-time artist, and much more.

This week Eric Rhoads interviews Bob Rohm, who calls himself a tonal landscape painter who is impressionistic mostly in terms of his brushwork. Rohm explains what’s going through his mind as he sets out to paint a landscape, why you don’t want to create too many areas of contrast in a painting, and his thoughts on colors and values.

This week’s PleinAir Art Podcast with Eric Rhoads features Debra Huse, who paints en plein air with oil. Based in Newport Beach, CA, Huse discusses how her background of painting in layers with pastels helped develop her current style of art.

If you’ve ever wanted to understand the mindset of an art collector, you’ll want to listen to this fascinating conversation with the Chairman of the Salmagundi Club. In addition to his role as Chairman of the Board for Salmagundi, Newton is an art lover and a collector of plein air paintings. Newton is also a “true art collector.” See what he says you should be doing to help you in your path of selling art, and painting in general, so you can better understand the mindset of a collector.

In this week’s PleinAir Art Podcast with Eric Rhoads, listen to a captivating conversation with Scott Christensen. The two met on a fine art cruise to Russia ten years ago, on a trip that Christensen calls “a defining moment” in his life. They go on to discuss Christensen’s upbringing, his battles with art teachers, and his own “major breakthrough.” He also addresses reframing your thinking; learning to see with and developing your critical eye; as well as art art workshops and the teaching p

In this week’s podcast, discover how Michael Chesley Johnson works with multiple mediums for painting outdoors, his thoughts on the color wheel, and how to not only paint, but document, landscapes. About this week’s artist: Michael Chesley Johnson works in oil and pastel in the American Southwest, coastal Maine, and the Canadian Maritimes. Elected a Master Pastellist by Pastel Artists Canada in 2008, he is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society and the Pastel Society of Ameri

Aaron Schuerr gives us insights into his “plein air adventurer” lifestyle, which offers him experiences that are no less than profound. “I like to get deep into the wilderness,” Schuerr tells us in this PleinAir Art Podcast with Eric Rhoads. Schuerr goes on to give us insights into his “plein air adventurer” lifestyle, and his profound experiences. When asked what makes them profound, he says it’s because of the “immersive experience of solitude.”