Plein Air Painting Survey

A local art student is completing a project on en plein air in Art History and has requested responses from other artists on their experience of painting en plein air for comparative study.

“I am incredibly interested by painting outdoors, and was wondering if it were possible for you to answer some questions I have on the topic?”

Their particular area of study has included Scandinavian artists such as Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909) working en plein air in the town of Skagen, Denmark. They are looking at the Skagen artists’ relationship with light in Skagen, and especially, Krøyer’s en plein air works created during his ‘blue period’.

If you are able to answer any of the questions below to aid their understanding of painting en plein air (particularly before Friday 6 May) that would be fantastic and we will pass on responses to them.