Diving In

So why 'plein air pair' you ask? Well...the name comes from our very first web site URL where we got our feet wet with the Internet idea. We liked the name, especially since we teach plein air workshops together and paint all the time together as well. Come to think of it...we spend ALL our time together which some people might see as a miraculous or impossible feat! Somehow it works for us which is kind of what we had hoped for when we got married ten years ago...

So we had this web site and then we learned a lesson in not letting a URL name expire for more than thirty seconds because ours was gone just like that! We tried an online art web site and didn't like the generic quality to it. Now we have our gallery website which we just love. We had it built so that it has our 'own look' and in such a way that we are able to maintain the entire site ourselves...

There are a lot of people out there who tell us that they miss the plein air pair name and we are still known in certain parts as such, so........in making this blog, we decided to bring back the original name and, well here we are...

The plein air pair has decided to get more acclimated to the wholeness of the Internet. We are both using facebook now, separately, which apparently means that we don't do really do everything together, which is probably causing a big sigh of relief for some of you..right?! And we are working on updating our website to bring it up to speed, going online with our newsletter and working on some videos that we can post...

I guess we could say that the plein air pair has gone from getting their feet wet to 'diving in'...

Next time, we'll give a heads-up about how we use our color palette. In the meantime click on our 'painting of the week' and our 'small collectibles' links.

The winter painting below is the 16x20 that I did this past week. It's called 'Melting Snow'