En plein air

Medium
- Acrylic
- Acrylic ink
- Airbrush
- Alkyd
- Brush pen
- Charcoal
- Collage
- Coloured pencil
- Digital
- Drawing
- Egg tempera
- Encaustic
- Gouache
- Graphite
- Ink
- Markers
- Mixed media
- Oil
- Oil pastel
- Oil sticks/bars
- Pastel
- Pastel pencil
- Pen & ink
- Pen & wash
- Pencil
- Printmaking
- Scratchboard
- Silk painting
- Spray paints
- Watercolour
- Water-soluble coloured pencil
- Water-soluble oil
Techniques
- Airbrush
- Alla prima
- Cross-hatching
- En plein air
- Etching
- Fat over lean
- Glaze
- Hatching
- Impasto
- Lino printing
- Lithography
- Loose
- Palette knife
- Scumble
- Sfumato
- Wet in wet
- Wet on dry
Subject matter
- Animals
- Autumn
- Birds
- Boats & Harbours
- Botanical
- Buildings
- Cities
- Figures
- Flowers
- Interiors
- Landscape
- Portraits
- Seascape
- Self portrait
- Spring
- Still life
- Summer
- The nude
- Townscape/urban
- Transport
- Trees
- Winter
Painting style
- Abstract
- Academic
- Chinese brush painting
- Expressive
- Figurative
- Genre
- Gestural
- Hyperrealism
- Illustration
- Impressionist
- Loose
- Miniature
- Monochromatic
- Narrative
- Oriental
- Photorealism
- Realism
- Representational
- Trompe l'oeil
Article type
- Advice
- Art Materials
- Artists Videos
- Basic
- Beginner
- Book and DVD reviews
- Demonstration
- Expert
- Guide
- How to
- Improver
- In conversation
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Masterclass
- New launch
- New publications
- News
- Other Media
- Paint from photographs
- Product report
- Professional
- Reviews
- Road test
- Simplified
- Specials
- Step-by-step
- Style
- Techniques
- Top tips
- Video of the month

Adventures en plein air with Adebanji Alade

Adebanji Alade’s paintings are full of bustling life. He explains how he overcomes the challenges of working on location to produce his energetic acrylic paintings.

Tell a Compelling Story by Steve Griggs

How to Create Quick and Lively Urban Scenes with Klaus Meier-Pauken

Out and about with oils by Edward Wesson

Capture wildlife in the wild

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