Central Florida Plein Air Artists regularly paint out on location "en plein air", organize our own Paint Outs, Exhibits, paint in Garden and Home tours, plan painting excursions to other areas or states, sponsor Workshops and Demos, and promote plein air painting in the Central Florida area.

See the CFPAA Video on YouTube.com
created by Jolee Stone

Exhibits & Events:
Sharon Muldoon at

Current / Upcoming CFPAA Activities

2011

Activity

Location

TBA

Painting at various locations, Garden/Home Tours, Exhibits, out of town Paint Outs and excursions.

Various

Mar 26-Sat
9am-4pm

Group display of paintings at the Florida Wildflower Festival, 100-199 W Indiana Ave in downtown DeLand.

Deland FL

Aug 30-Tue

Meeting at Panera Bread in Lake Mary FL at 6pm. Take the Lake Mary Blvd exit off I-4 going West; it is on the corner of International Pkwy & Lake Mary Blvd, on the left, in the strip mall.

Lake Mary FL

Sep 13-Tue

Meeting at Panera Bread in Lake Mary FL at 6pm. Take the Lake Mary Blvd exit off I-4 going West; it is on the corner of International Pkwy & Lake Mary Blvd, on the left, in the strip mall.

Lake Mary FL

Sep 24-Sat

10 Year Anniversary Paintout at Ozello. Hope to have all that were at the first one attend. For details call Elisabeth at 407.232.4109

Ozello FL

Nov 10-16

Members will take part in the Mt.Dora Paint Out. For details call 352-383-0880

Mt.Dora FL

Dec 3-4

Lake Helen Victorian Home Tour. 7 homes and 5 churches all deck out for the Christmas holiday.

Mt.Dora FL

Apr 2012

CFPAA Group Exhibit at Gallery on First.

Sanford FL

CFPAA Painting Sites
Painting begins at 9am. Bring a lunch. No Painting as a group, June-July-August.

Dates

Location Details

TBA

Information will be listed on our new Blog currently under construction. Expect a Spring 2011 debut.

 

A Little History and Highlights
Central Florida Plein Air Artists was organized as a not-for-profit group in November of 2003 for the purpose of furthering Plein Air painting in the Central Florida area. A group of artists first met in September 2001 for the first official Florida Paintout in Ozello, Florida. This event spun off Plein Air Florida aka PAF. Many local artists began to form sub-groups in their areas and that is when CFPAA was born.

Our first Invitational exhibit at Harry P. Leu Gardens in March 2004 was a resounding success. With a lot of hard work, some good publicity, and team work, we soon became well established as a "very active" and successful group of plein air artists.

CFPAA has created many venues for artists to learn, sell, and excel. Painting workshops with local, national, and international art teachers, getting a calendar of artists' work published, a website, and keeping the painting sites going created interest for new artists to join, and created public interest in plein air painting. We added some very exciting Open and Invitational Paint Outs and Exhibits and decided to focus on Garden and Home tours for added ways to increase individual sales. Some highlights of the past 6 years are listed below:

2010
Paint Out and Sale at Gardens Around the Parks Tour in Sanford, FL
2009
We Participated in the first Flagler Beach Paint Out presented by the Gallery of Local Art (GOLA). Our members won 3 Honorable mentions, one 2nd place and various other prizes.
Winter Park Garden Tour: April 4th. Paint Out week before.
Sanford Garden Tour, April 25. Paint Out week before.
Christmas Party & Painting Gift Exchange
2008
CFPAA Exhibit at Metro Gallery, Orlando, FL
Paint Out and Eola Heights Garden Tour, Orlando, FL
Photos and events about Plein Air and CFPAA in particular were covered in the Orlando Sentinel on four occasions.
Orlando Leisure magazine, and several newspapers in the Mount Dora and Sanford area put the spotlight on Plein Air painting and CFPAA in particular.
2007
Workshop at Leu Gardens with Morgan Samuel Price
Painting excursion to St. Simon's and Jeckyl Island, GA
College Park Home Tour and the Winter Park Annual Garden Tour
Light Up Mt. Dora Paintout & Exhibit at Mt.Dora Center for the Arts
2006
Juried Exhibit & Paint Out at Mount Dora Center for the Arts, Mt. Dora, FL
Earth Day Paint Out & Exhibit at Lemon Bluff on the St. Johns River
Tour of the "Private Gardens of Eola Heights", Orlando, FL
2004-2005
Invitational Paint Out & Exhibit at Leu Gardens, Orlando, FL
Calendars of 12 artists' paintings for marketing at Disney World and for fund raising
Exhibit & Reception at the Citrus Club, Orlando, FL
Exhibit at Orlando Broadway Theatre
Paint Out & Exhibit/Reception at Mead Garden, Winter Park, FL (International Plein Air Painter's annual)
Paint Out & Exhibit at Merritt Island Visitor's Center,Titusville, FL