| To apply for membership, please fill out
the form below and submit or click here to print out the form and mail
to the address on the bottom of the form. Membership in OPAS is open
to all artists, regardless of age or experience, who want to work in
the plein air tradition.
Those making application for membership should be aware of the
following criteria for your work:
- It is the intention of this Society to foster the tradition of
plein air painting. We look to artists in history, and in our own
time, who have carried the torch of plein air painting. We must be
mindful of the importance of plein air painting, its rightful place,
and its importance in the history of art. Therefore, for purposes of
exhibition our members must think of their work as fitting into one of
the following four categories:
- Alla Prima -- completed in one session on site. No work is done
on the painting after leaving the site.
- Completed on Site -- Completed on site in more than one session.
No work is done on the painting after leaving the site.
- Plein Air -- 90% of the painting is completed on site.
- No work from photographs done in the studio will be acceptable.
- Members are on the honor system in meeting the above mentioned
requirements for exhibition.
- From time to time the exhibition committee will schedule a juried
member exhibition in which members will be allowed to exhibit studio
work completed from reference material such as Plein Air studies.
These works traditionally have been larger in format, and would be
labeled as studio paintings.
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