Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Signature Artist Michael Obermeyer

“When painting outdoors, en plein air, I must work quickly due to the changing light. Therefore I have a limited palette of four to seven colors. This orderly layout also enables me to mix clean, fresh color.

I try to find subject matter that fascinates me. Nature provides the perfect balance of shape, value and color – the three elements that I find most important in painting. It can be so satisfying and I feel blessed for that.”

Gregory Peck once said, ‘I love my God, my wife, my family, and my job. I am the damn luckiest man on earth.’ As someone who gets to paint for a living, that pretty much says it all for me.“

Michael Obermeyer
Laguna Beach, California
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Laguna Plein Air Artist Joseph Paquet

“Being enveloped by nature affords the artist an opportunity to radiate all of our senses outward and creates multiple points of contact with a particular experience. The more senses the artist engages, the more potent the encounter.”

Joseph Paquet
 Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Signature Artist Jason Sacran

“I am a contemporary representational painter, working primarily outdoors. I paint what catches my interest in the moment. This could be almost anything; an orchestration of shapes, color contrast, light and shadow patterns, a mood or atmosphere, a subject I have never tried, or a subject I enjoy, etc. I am drawn to paint places and things that say something about the day and time I live in now. Although my work is not necessarily subject driven, I find myself painting the overlooked and simultaneously familiar aspects of everyday life – scenes we pass by but rarely take the time to fully consider. In the chaos of daily life, I believe we all take the simple and familiar for granted. Sometimes it is these quiet unadorned places that make the most worthy subjects.”

Jason Sacran
Magazine, Arkansas
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Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Signature Artist Jeff Sewell

“My dream days start with a surf in the morning and then spending the day with my feet in the sand painting seascapes and beach scenes”

Jeff Sewell
Costa Mesa, California
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Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Signature Artist W. Jason Situ

“I like implicit; I like tranquil. I worship nature”

W. Jason Situ
El Monte, California
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