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The Top Plein Air Painting Events for August 2025
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Photo: Paint Dexter Plein Air Festival (August 11-16, 2025)
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Take advantage of these art and plein air painting events and opportunities from our 2025 Ultimate Guide to Painting Events and Organizations. Bonus: Includes upcoming event deadlines!
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August 2025 Painting Events
California
EXHIBITION: COLORS OF CONSERVATION 2025
Dates: August 8-9
Sponsor: San Luis Outdoor Painters for the Environment
Venue: Octagon Barn Center, Land Conservancy of SLO County
The annual event represents the largest collection of original landscape art of open spaces, ranches and preserves under land management agreements with the Land Conservancy of SLO County. A portion of art sales will benefit The Land Conservancy. Last year’s Colors of Conservation art sales generated over $10,000 in donations to the Land Conservancy.
20TH FRANK BETTE PLEIN AIR PAINTOUT
Dates: July 28-August 2
Opening Reception: August 2
Sponsoring Organization: Frank Bette Center for the Arts
Venue: South Shore Center, Alameda
Format: Juried
Juror of Awards: Richard Lindenberg
Award Total: $6450
The Frank Bette Plein Air Paintout hosts up to 40 juried artists for a week of painting tree-lined streets; stately Victorian homes and shops; picturesque marinas; historic naval ships and naval air station; as well as beaches, lagoons, parks, and San Francisco and Oakland skylines in the island city of Alameda. The week includes a welcome reception, luncheon and a quick draw and an outdoor exhibit and sale of all the paintings on Saturday.
EXHIBITION: Painting Route 66-An Artist Road Trip
Dates: Through August 10
Venue: Luna Gallery in San Juan Bautista
A plein air exhibit celebrating the Route 66 Centennial and focusing on scenes along the route through New Mexico, Arizona, and California has been organized by Santa Fe Artists Carole Belliveau, Stephanie West, Wendy Ahlm, and Elizabeth May.
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Colorado
COLORADO GRANDEUR 2025 PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF AMERICA NATIONAL EXHIBIT
Dates: August 1-30
Opening Reception: August 2
Sponsoring Organization: Shaun Horne Gallery
Venue: Crested Butte Center for the Arts, Kinder Padon Gallery
Format: Invitational
Presenting an extensive collection of paintings by Plein Air Painters of America (PAPA) members, including many new paintings of central Colorado. Plein air and studio paintings will be for sale. PAPA is the original and premier landscape painting artist group in the United States. PAPA’s Catalina California shows beginning in 1986 were the very signal of an American return to referential painting. Hosted by the Shaun Horne Gallery at the Crested Butte Center for the Arts.
7th ANNUAL ESTES VALLEY PLEIN AIR
Dates: August 21-26
Opening Reception: August 29
Sponsoring Organization: Art Center of Estes Park
Venue: MacGregor Ranch, Estes Park
Format: Open
Award Total: $11,000
Activities include a quick paint/auction, nocturne painting, as well as poster/wine label and miniature contests. Enjoy the exquisitely beautiful painting opportunities. Works will hang in the Art Center of Estes Park throughout September.
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New Book: “Lemonade Lists” for Creativity and Gratitude
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“Lemonade Lists” artwork by Cindy Briggs, who is a Signature Member of the National (NWS) and Northwest Watercolor Societies (NWWS), as well as a Daniel Smith Watercolor Ambassador.
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Plein air artist Cindy Briggs has teamed up with creative coach Carol Frazier to release “Lemonade Lists,” a new book meant to guide you through discovering your authentic voice, showing you how to weave creativity and gratitude into your daily life.
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“Lemonade Lists is full of photos, paintings, and recipes from my best “squeezers.” These are the people who loved me back to a state of gratitude and health. I am forever grateful for their talents, and for the tough love that helped open this lemonade stand for you.
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Editor’s Note: Join us for the 6th Annual Plein Air Live online art conference, featuring Kathleen Hudson, Kevin Macpherson, Kami Mendlik, and many more! The event takes place November 6-8, 2025, with an Essential Techniques Day on November 5. Learn more at PleinAirLive.com.
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