Gay Scheibl is an award-winning Tucson artist known for her gorgeous landscape paintings. Many of her landscapes were created plain air, a French term meaning out in the open air. Although Gay primarily paints landscapes, she also has produced a noteworthy collection of portraits, both of people and of animals. She is active in the Tucson Plein Air Painters Society, Tucson Pastel Society, and Plein Air painters of NM and Black Range Artists, Inc. of NM.