Great video! I especially like that Batman narrated it.

Go out, love nature, remember it as its gradually vanishing. Beautiful paintings.

Reading one of the remarks below, about actually painting on location: "..it was AMAZING!! There's something special about plein air, a human experience, a real connection with nature," (end quote) < THIS is what I have always experienced. Working from photos, in the studio does not seem to carry with it the SOUL or ENERGY of the landscape being painted, not as powerfully or emotionally as most plein air captures!!

Great video! Very inspiring and encouraging! Ive been painting indoors for many years but, last month I went to a waterfall near my place and did my first plein air painting, and it was AMAZING!! There's something special about plein air, a human experience, a real connection with nature, an element of simultaneous absorption and expression, which painting indoors lacks

this video was AMAZING!!! .... this has made me want to go out right now (it's 1:20 a.m) and paint ... but seriously - this has inspired me immensely .... and I believe this will help me move out of my comfort zone and join every painting opportunity out there - thanks so much for creating this video - I would love to share this on other sites - but I'll definitely recommend every painter watch this .. and happy painting to all

and yes, Devin Roberts, painting has pulled me too, hrough some of my worst tragedies in life - hopefully it will continue to do so - you are not alone in that - happy painting

Wow! What else can I say. I feel humbled by their experiences!

I paint since at least 10 years, but always in my studio, I always had the desire to paint plen air... this video just gave me the boost to give it a try, and I will do it very soon!

Very inspiring to not only see others out there painting. But to see people creating, that's most inspiring of all 😊

A rainy nite, I was blessed to stumble upon this link! It was refreshing to see how far the revived interest in Plein Air painting has gone (and this video is 7+ years old!) Back in '87 the word "plein air" had not been used in the U.S. Art field since about the 1920s! Denise Burns of Catalina Island, while at a Dan McCaw workshop in Hermosa Beach CA, asked me to create ONE nat'l ad to promote a group she started: Plein Air Painters of America (PAPA). I convinced Denise to allow me to set up a national ad campaign, involving 3 major art magazines: "Southwest Art, Art of the West and Artists of the Rockies, designing 22 full page artist ads a year ('87-'96) for the original 24 artists. Neither of us charged a penny those 10 years, to promote PAPA. It is awesome to see how far Denise's dream has come! I'm very honored to have been a part of that rebirth! Watching this great video, the rain outside feels appropriate for the isolation I've come to experience over the past many years, being away from this great movement! Thank you Eric, and all involved supporting this journey. I offer free guidance & help on my website for artists struggling in this field! I'd love to hear from you, anytime! www.bettybillups.com

This is a wonderful primer for the artist who wants to understand the underpinnings of outdoor painting.

Thank you for this excellent informative documentary I've come to painting as a form of congnitive rehab post stroke I've not managed to set up hot side the housemate but it will happen regardless of my disabilities, I may be wrong but didn't Monet say don't worry about the end result just enjoy the process of getting there a maximum for life I feel

I LOVE PAINTING PLEIN AIR, I AM BRAZILIAN BUT I ALREADY PAINTED IN THE MOUNTAINS IN GERMANY, ALSO IN FRANCE. THANKS

I realized that I have seen the videos of all the painters you are showing us in this video. Great learning that I got from Streamline during the COVID and I look forward to it every day! Keep going and I will keep watching and learning!!!

oh man that voice ^^ so melodramatic. I can't even.

Bravo! I am working on an education program for the Chestnut Group to educate children and adults about plein air painting. Great resource to use, thank you! Well done.

LOVE!!! This is exactly why I paint

What a wonderful history to know, thank you for sharing!

I smiled through the whole video - it was wonderful!

A pleasure to listen to as well as a visual glass of champagne. I think this was the best of the best! I am going to forward this to all of my Artist friends! Thank you for such a pleasurable experience. I am sur I will watch it again. Love that voice!

beautiful motivation to connect, train and activate a new awakening !

Excellent! Plein Air has a great heritage.

This is a really great documentary, thank you for making it. And the accompanying website you made is also great.

Great artist's paintings are very much interesting you had shown us. Thanx lot...

Thank you Eric very nice document 👍🤩❤🥰

The July issue of Plein Air Magazine has a really nice article about a world class watercolor artist. Very good reading.

Enjoyed this a lot ; most of the paintings I love were done En Plein Air - they have a magic that studio paintings simply don’t. Gotta get out of my kitchen studio !

Beautiful document, to be seen everywhere, in schools, well done and especially challenging for those who, like me, has always painted in the studio. It would be nice and useful to know, through videos, artists who paint outdoors and their techniques. Thank you, congratulations! Paolo Croce (Genua-Italy)

Even Batman loves PleinAir painting too. Very cool🦹‍♂️

Very nice video, good stuff and resources available for the beginner. I did many plein air events about 20 years ago and stopped about 5-6 years afterward as my job demands increased. Retired now and in a good place to paint again, Arizona, I'm thinking about entering a few events again. I have galley representation here, and we do have a local club so all is good. Happy painting everyone, and if you are ever told this line by someone stopping by to watch you, just say "yes, my aunt painted too"! LOL. :D

If you haven't seen the magazine yet, check it out. Really well done, quality paper and reproductions, and plenty of great content. After watching this video, I'm going to finally subscribe and get that shiny new easel and get some paint on it.

Thanks for encouraging me! I hope you get to see some of my work when I get really good.

A Beautiful video about my favourite pastime! Thank you

this is my first time looking at this channel liked this video it motivate me to create outdoors you just got subed

Thankyou for the wonderful video. Just a comment to Eric, I think it is remiss to show the history of Plein Air and not talk about the Group of Seven from Canada that are unarguably some of the best Plein Air painters of all time. If Americans haven’t seen their work I highly recommend they check them out as there is more Plein Air history around the world after the first impressionists other than the US painters you discussed. Just my opinion.

Really wonderful. Thanks a lot

I really enjoyed this video. Lots of great information, loved who it was narrated & the music.

Wonderful video! Love the Mag, but more watercolor please!!

thanks for the video and for the encouraging word , I enjoy very much

what a history for painters thankyou

Beautiful Artwork

beautiful paintings-interesting documentary

I paint also, but I don't have a car and it is difficult to travel without a car. When I had my car I used to do sketches of the places I visited. Now I am not that young, just turned 70, but I paint at home from photographs. I would love to travel and paint in plein air. Painting is my passion and I have been doing it since I was 13 years old. But I used to paint mostly portraits not landscapes. I also did a lot of still life paintings. If there is a way I can travel with a group please let me know? Thank you for the encouragement to go outside indoors. Thank you I have all the materials to even travel with my paint materials, I just don't have the car or facility to do it. Thank you again.

Great video , thanks Eric

Did my first one today I’m hooked thanks for sharing this

I've seen this video many times and have enjoyed it!!..what a huge change from 2015 to 2020...thousands more painters outdoors!! the Baby Boomers??...love it myself!

A lovely video. Much appreciation.

Good , Great documentary . I'm totally inspired . Getting a Monet type easel soon . See you out side !

Wonderful documentary!

23 mins - if I had taken time to set myself up to paint outdoors and then some random person driving past, irrespective of how successful they deemed themselves to be, then stopped and joined me because they felt I need to be part of a community I would be pretty hacked off.

love the documentary, however i find the voice over and the reverb that was added onto it very irritating and distracting

I saw a couple of these paintings in Denver art museum. I would look at them differently if I knew how much effort was involved to make them.

4:39 painting used as album artwork by black metal band Eldamar

thanks

Great Artist🙏❤️

John Muir, born in Scotland!

Love it. Great documentary. Would love it more if there were subtitles. Not everyone is hearing. ;-)

I always find it much easier to BUY a painting and that gives me more time to enjoy what I'm seeing with a beer in hand .. hahah just kidding, I love to paint (with a beer)

very inviting...thank you

"A couple glorious hours." Jeez last time I was out it took from 12-6pm. The shadows on the ground didn't match up to the shadow on the gazebo which was the last thing I painted haha, literally all day...take that Monet.

Excellent video!

Awsome documental

The husky voice is accidentally hilarious .

What's that little guitar "picking tune in the end credits? I recognize it from another youtube video.

Why is Batman narrating?

the narrator is as good as the painters

The "free" lessons on this site are not completed four months on. Why is that? I was then directed to the DVD's for sale?

It'd be great if you could add the name or artist of the paintings you show - there are so many beautiful ones that I don't recognise and would love to look up! Also, having the artists' names appear on screen when they're said by the narrator would be helpful because a lot of them are hard to guess the spelling of. Lovely video though, I found it very inspirational! :)

In 2003, I bought an apartment in a little town north west of Paris called Colombes. The next town along was called Argenteuil. I used to go there often to get a coffee, do a little grocery shopping...a working class town today marred by radicalism and crime..most commuters travelling into Paris wouldn't blink an eye as the train pulls in and out of the station of Argenteuil on RER C or the Transilien...wouldn't know that one house that overlooks the station was that once owned by......Monet. I sold that apartment in 2010, completely ignorant of the history of Haut de Seine 92.. Chatou, Geneveilliers, Pontoise, Louvciennes, Bougival, Asnieres, Port Marly...all areas painted by and lived in by the impressionists! Argenteuil especially. That Caillboitte and Manet both owned homes in petit Genevilliers, That Renoir also lived in Argenteuil. Now I just marvel at The Barbizon and impressionist painters. Of the dealers like Vollard and Ruel who brough them to the world's attention. I love it all. AND I love Paris that bit more for it!!! Rain Effect at Yerres by Caillebotte....I could look at this painting everyday! And please, take a look at the work of Stanislas Lepine..a forgotten impressionist who showed at that first exhibition in 1874..a prolific painter of the Seine...whose paintings sell today for about £40k....why??? Amazing painter who died broke and destroyed.

as with personal tombstones after piazza many will say they wished they danced more, mine, will be paint blank

if color relates to music then singing the song to the souls, are through paintings

hi i am trying to subscribe through the website to the magazine but no where is there an email or phone number to ask questions prior the process. do you ship to israel? what are the shipping charges? thank you

Fantastic those Artist!.. and their work are really amazing! Does any one know who is the artist name at 30:30? Thank you so much for this inspirational video

“Im John Muir and I speak for the trees

When will show more new video again ??

Great documentary, but it is so shocking for me to see that it is all men, men who paint, men who do the documenting.

Who is the artist at 26:49?

are there transcripts of this? plans to do so?

13: 37 and morisot , the femme impresionist ,remember her

finished with great Ken Auster wish he taught my dissed organization

anyone need this type of narration?im available

Yeah just like President Dumb once said, we have famous national parks such as “yos mite, uh...yose mite, uh...termite, and thigh land”. 😂😂😂

A little repetitive towards the end but a nice video.

This is an awesome video and great content. But the voice is really creepy and unsettling!

I'M BATMAN!!!

I thought about doing this but...I don't have a hat.

Still called them Indians.

This voiceover, while very interesting, seems more suited for narration of a piece about the old west.

And braving mosquitoes and lovebugs. Lol.

Narrator sounds like Dallas McClain. Good voice actor, but not the best choice for this subject.

Nice video, with horrible background music that is distracting.

27:00....."a great stress reducer".....obviously not a painter. If your stress is getting reduced, so is the amount of $ youll get for the painting.

Great topic and visuals, unfortunately the narrator sounding like an actor doing an American Indian for a Western is distracting.

There are still Indians

American documentaries are always disappointing. Always touch more dramatic than needed.

T|his deep voice is rather annoying

A pity the narrator is unable to pronounce the names of the French artists correctly. Please don't Americanise their names; it's not acceptable.

So, no room for female painters in the dangerous wild west... Le sigh.