When I get time and the whether is not too bad I always like to go en plein air (paint-outs).

一旦我有空，如果天气不太差，我总是争取到室外写生。

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I was of course very excited and craved to learn more, particularly about landscape painting, so I took a weeklong plein air workshop in Vermont.

我当然很高兴，然后渴望学到更多，尤其是在风景绘画方面，于是我用了一周在佛蒙特州的工作室练习。

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I'd been thinking of attempting a more elaborate meal en plein air, so I took a deep breath and moved away from the pre-made stuff.

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Australian Impressionists like Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin, worked en plein air to depict the lovely coastal landscapes of Sydney's Coogee, Melbourne's Brighton and their de rigueur tableaus of primly dressed beach goers.

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While the plein-air paintings of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists seem studied in comparison with the informality of these watercolors, we search the Sargents for evidence that their creator was aware of the developments in abstract art during the first decades of the 20th century.

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