Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for November 03, 2021

How do you get them to pose that long?

plein air painting is the act of painting outdoors < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_plein_air >

plein air or plein-air (plān′âr’, plĕ-nĕr’)

adj.

1. Of or being a style of painting produced out of doors in natural light.

2. Taking place outdoors: plein air dining.

[From French (en) plein air, (in) the open air : en, in + plein, full + air, air.]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright© 2006, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Peeping Tom artist?

plein-air /plānˈer/ adjectivedenoting or in the manner of a 19th-century style of painting outdoors, or with a strong sense of the open air, that became a central feature of French impressionism.“the French style of plein-air landscape painting”

They are trying to figure out why he’s sitting around out there after they paid him to paint their houses.

I’m always amazed how some people are proud to show their own ignorance and denigrated those with more culture than themselves.

on the outside looking in

THIS is why I read GoComics. I am always learnin something new (while laughing).

Paint from outside looking in? Okay.

See, I learned something new today. Merci.

A room with a hue..or Hugh.

I had to look this one up…

Maybe he means airplane paintings?

I’ve been to a plein air art show. In the morning, you walk around watching the artists paint in the park. Late afternoon, the paintings were auctioned off.

Those were before his later “through steel bars” period.

It looks like paintings of people who watch the news.

Thanks, all, for the clarification. I confess that that one went right over my head.

I never complein about the opportunity to learn a new word.

The painting done in Texas would be the end of a double barrel shotgun.

Can not get it also went over my head.

“Paranoia will destroy ya” which is pretty close to what Plein Air is not about!