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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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Celebrating Alberta's Natural Beauty through

Outdoor Painting Adventures

From the wide open skies of the prairies, to the rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies, Alberta offers a spectacular array of landscapes and open-air spaces for all artists to explore.

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What You'll Need

If you're new to plein-air painting, here are some basics you should consider before venturing outside.

Learning

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Where to Paint

Find that hidden jem of a painting location and share your favourite spots with other artists.

Painting locations

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About Us

Plein Air Alberta aims to grow and support Alberta’s artistic community. We seek to encourage its artists to go outside and create within our province’s spectacular landscape. We hope to raise the profile of Alberta as an artistic centre in Canada, as well as help promote and preserve our natural wilderness areas.

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News

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021

So 2020 is almost behind us. I hope 2021 is just good news for all of us, and that we
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Happy New Year 2020!

All our best for 2020.


Plein Air Alberta launches its new website…finally!

Still very much a work in progress, but the new site finally went live today.


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Events

FREE Plein Air Oil Painting

Leighton Art Centre
This 2.5-hour course will provide you with the fundamentals to get you outside and painting with confidence.


Paint the Foothills 2023

Leighton Art Centre
Come out to paint & picnic (or just picnic!) at your own pace, go for a walk along our nature trails and take in some truly spectacular views, and be inspired by dozens of talented artists creating on the land, under our big Alberta skies.


Third Annual Bragg Creek Plein Air Event and Art Festival

On September 20th – 29th / 2019, Art Country Canada in Bragg Creek has organized the Third Annual Bragg Creek Plein Air Event and Art Festival.


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Blog

Eliminating glare when photographing your work

It requires the purchase of some specific equipment (relatively inexpensive), and creating a space setup for this purpose… but the results speak for themselves.


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