The exhibition that was held at the end of 2011 and devoted to Plain-air, obviously, took a keen interest among participants and the audience. It was decided to show it again but having made thematically wider and being called "Sketchis-2012". It was an idea to turn it in regular and to arrange it not annually but slightly rare.
In 2012 Oleg Plenkin created the series of pastels based on his impressions from trip to Spain and to Crimea. He decided to send the Spanish pastels to the Regional Art Exhibition but the Crimean pastels to show at the exhibition of sketches.