2021 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Fernando Micheli
Laguna Beach, California
“One not only needs to capture the feeling of the subject, but also the essence of light and color as it bounces, reflects, and scatters. Painting is truly seeing more intensely than you can possibly hope to see. Painting is a life-long pursuit, one that requires always honing and learning new skills in order to build a vocabulary that just doesn’t reproduce reality, but provides new ways to look at it.”
2021 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Dan Mondloch
Cold Spring, Minnesota
“It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it is that draws me to a scene. I’m sure it’s a number of both technical and intangible things, such as composition, large value shapes, light, and often that unexplainable spirit you feel from a space. I paint to re-create these connections, and, of course, if my viewers are able to see and feel that as well, it’s a great moment.”
2021 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Richard Boyer
Salt Lake City, Utah
“Painting plein air really puts you on the spot to capture the light and composition as quick as possible. In the studio one tends to become lazy and take too many breaks, checking that cell phone becomes a little too often. In the wild, you have just a finite amount of time to get that view down on the canvas before it all changes.”
2021 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Ned Mueller
Renton, Washington
“Most of us seem to have a mixture of positive and negative influences whether we want them or not and I think the bottom line is…we really must have the love for doing whatever it may be as that what can carry is through all rejections, tragedies, and disappointments so many of may have to endure.”
2021 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Scott W. Prior
Oceanside, California
Scott shares a favorite quote by Jacob Nordby, “Blessed are The Weird People — the poets, misfits, writers, mystics, heretics, painters and troubadours — for they teach us to see the world through different eyes”.
