We finally got to the last and most important part of our stay in Chiflika - the painting outdoors, that I was personally very enthusiastic about.
En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air," and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors, which is also called peinture sur le motif ("painting on the ground") in French.
Artists have long painted outdoors, but in the mid-19th century working in natural light became particularly important to the Barbizon school and Impressionism. The popularity of painting en plein air increased in the 1870s with the introduction of paints in tubes (resembling modern toothpastetubes). Previously, each painter made their own paints by grinding and mixing dry pigment powders with linseed oil.
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