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Idaho painters painting the old-fashioned way...with paint, brushes and bug spray!

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"The River Rocks"
 Plein Air Paint Out
June 19 ~ 21 2008


A three-day plein air paint-out "The River Rocks" is scheduled in downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho. Awards total over $3000.

Come for the painting, the comaraderie, the prizes...they're all great! A get-acquainted breakfast for the artists and a barbecue are only two of the fun events.

 

Although the prospectus says the deadline for registration is May15, that has been deleted and you may register up until the time of hte event. Early registrants will get a red plein air apron - perhaps not if you are a later comer.

Click here for a prospectus

"Tumbling Waters" - Idaho Falls Greenbelt
24x36 oil painting by Marjorie Clearwater

ABOUT US:
Quoting from Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit,

“...the art student is not an isolated force.  He belongs to a great brotherhood and bears a great kinship to his kind.  He benefits by taking and he benefits by giving.” 

So, a brotherhood of artists of the “Snake River Plains” is linked, not by a river, but by kinship. Working together in loosely structured gatherings, using all mediums, they attempt to keep the ego out of the product. These artists meander between groups benefiting by interchange and a willingness to prove or fail a work in front of one another, knowing, if I do better, you will do better, and if we do better, then art will do better.

As the Snake River runs through mountains, cliffs, and lava fields, down to rolling farmlands before joining other waters working to the sea...we paint it all.

Marcia Cox- Snake River Plein Air Painter

Last Revised: 4/3/08 by Cherry Art & Graphic Design