Plein Air PDX

  Plein air painters, Welcome to July in Portland Oregon. Prime time for painting outdoors. Here are a few paint-outs that you are all invited to. Bring your paints and enjoy the nice Portland weather. July is the time to paint fountains and water lilies. Not because they are easy to paint, but because they are hard to paint (forgive me John Kennedy), and we enjoy the fountain audio of running water.  Here are the paint-outs: Thursday, July 2nd , Paint Water lilies in Tanner Springs Park, NW 10th Ave and NW Marshall, from 10am to noon. Street paid parking and restrooms a block away in Fields Park, Ovation coffee is there also. Thursday, July 9 : Paint Keller Fountain, SW 3rd Ave and Clay St. from 10am to noon. Street or parking garage and restrooms in the 200 Market Building across the street. Thursday, July 16 : Paint Salmon Springs Fountain, 1000 SW Naito Pkwy, from 10am to noon. Street parking and no near bathrooms. Thursday, July 23rd : Paint Lovejoy Fountain Park, SW Harr...

  The Rose Festival and Summer are both coming to Portland in June. So, you are invited to the following plein air painting dates and locations. Note that all the June paint-outs are from 10am to noon (the cooler part of the day): Friday, June 5th: Paint Fleet Week Ships from Vera Katz Eastbank Trail near Morrison Bridge, from 10am to noon. No restrooms. Bring earplugs, I5 is noisy. Saturday, June 6th : Paint Dragon Boat Races and views of downtown Portland from the OMSI. 1945 SE Water Ave. from 10am to 12:00pm. Paid parking at the OMSI or free parking under 99W at Oregon Rail Heritage Center,. Restrooms inside the OMSI. Hearing protection is also recommended here as we will be standing under the Marquam Bridge. Tuesday, June 9th: "Paint the roses red" at the Peninsula Park Rose Garden, N. Albina and Ainsworth, from 10am to noon. Restrooms in the park and street parking. Thursday, June 18th: Paint International Rose Test Garden, 400 SW Kingston Ave, from 10am to noon. Pay ...

  Painters, Spring weather is finally here. So let's paint outdoors. Here are opportunities to plein air paint in Portland during May, 2026: Friday, May 1 ,  from 1pm to 3pm. Paint Tillicum Bridge or the OMSI from Robertson Collaborative life science , RCLS, building. Meet behind the building. Paid street parking along S. Meade St. and free parking across the river at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center. Trolley and Max also have stops at the RCLS Building. Restrooms are inside Elephants Deli.  Wednesday, May 6 ,  from 10am to noon  Paint the Hoyt Magnolia Trail in bloom. Meet at Hoyt Arboretum (where the bathrooms are), 4000 SW Fairview Blvd, at 10am, then walk to Magnolia Trail. A couple of hundred yards of walking required. Thursday, May 14    from 10am to noon. :  Paint Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, 5801 SE 28th Ave.  The parking lot opens at 10am, so to get front door parking you need to arrive a few minute...

  Welcome to Spring in Portland. The fruit trees, azaleas, camellias, and rhododendrons are starting to bloom.The dragon boats have returned to their place along the Riverplace Marina Dock, and the Thompson Elk fountain is returning to SW Main St. Join us plein air painting this month. Also, in May, 2026 is the Watermedia show at the Oregon Art Center, OAC, (formerly the Oregon Society of Artists) and in August 2026 there will be the Plein Air/ Alla Prima show at the OAC.Here is the April paint-out calendar: Monday, April 6:  Paint Dragon Boats from the Riverplace Marina Public Dock, 1500 S Harbor Way, from 1pm to 3pm. Street parking and public garage parking along S. Harbor Way. Walk onto the floating public dock and paint right next to dragon boats. Tuesday, April 14: Welcome back the Thompson Elk Fountain by painting the Elk en pleinair , SW Main and SW 4th Ave, from 1pm to 3pm. Street parking. Tuesday, April 21 :Paint Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, 580...

  Plein air painters, Christine Schulbach , from our pleinair painting  group is having a show at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Or. Reception is April 1 at 5 pm at the Whipple Fine Art Gallery on Campus Keep in mind that it's a three hour trip one way. Christine says that she does not expect a large turnout from the Portland crowd. But if you happen to be down that way, then please stop in. Also, Eric Sandgren and Yolanda Valdes-Rementeria have paintings in the Art About Agriculture show at the Giustina Gallery at Oregon State University in Corvallis that is on the way. Keep painting outdoors,  Brooks

  Painting today at Cornell Farm with Humberto Gonzalez , Yolanda Valdes-Rementeria , and Marian Flood . Marian recruited two new painters, Pam and Elotie. We look forward to painting with Pam and Elotie in the future . Brooks's "Black Tulip Magnolia" in acrylic Humberto's watercolor Marian's "Black Tulip Magnolia" in oil pastel Yolanda Brooks Humberto   Marian's sketches with oil pastel