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Artwork by Bill Paarlberg

Artwork by Bill Paarlberg

  • Artwork for Sale
    • Bill Paarlberg’s Watercolor Paintings For Sale
    • Bill Paarlberg’s Sketchbook Paintings and Class Demos For Sale
  • Portfolios
    • Living Creatures in the Paint: The Paintings Are Alive
    • Watercolors
      • Paintings of Smuttynose Island
      • Watercolors of Portsmouth
    • The Famous Monsters of Portsmouth
    • Drawings of Portsmouth
  • Exhibits
    • Full Bloom Flower Show at Caffé Kilim
  • Writing About Artwork
    • When Artists and Scientists Learn from Each Other: The Shoals Marine Lab Artist-in-Residence Program
    • DeWitt Hardy Taught the Making of Magic
    • The Nature of the Plein Air Artist
    • Illustrating Portsmouth
    • Illustrating Mayto
  • About and Contact

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The Nature of the Plein Air Artist

The Nature of the Plein Air Artist This article will appear in The Art Guide 2018 (Phineas Press, 2018). By Bill Paarlberg—I

The artwork hangs on the wall, but the art happens in your head.

I was thrilled to have Jeanné McCartin quote me in today’s Seacoast Online: “I am pretty sure that art happens in

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