“Light is therefore color.” - JMW Turner Painting, many people say, is all about light. Historically, however, painters treated light not just literally but as a visual counterpart of wonder, spirituality, and the sacred. We can [...]
They weren’t just painting the land – they wanted to reveal its very soul. Perhaps that’s why their landscapes feel so full of feeling and authenticity. The greatest Russian and Ukrainian landscape paintings of the [...]
How to Draw with Charcoal: A Medium With Mystical Gravity By Julio Reyes (www.julioreyes.com) There’s an almost mystical gravity to this old material. There’s no denying its seriousness once you’ve placed your first mark to paper. [...]
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." – Shelley Thomas Cole melts our hearts when he ends his Course of Empire cycle with a hazy moon rising peacefully over the marble ruins of a classical [...]
By Guest Contributor Barb Walker This edition of Inside Art features a guest article and artwork by oil painter Barb Walker. I was stuck! My work was okay, but not where I wanted it to be. Is it ever? [...]
By CONTRIBUTING WRITER William Patterson I am a Contemporary Realist painter. Contemporary Realism is diverse and wide-ranging; it is more than narrative, encompasses fantasy, reality and psychology, and is grounded in a thorough understanding of [...]
Tony Pro, whose teaching video is Secrets of Expressive Portraits, was born in Northridge, California, in 1973. He grew up in Southern California under the guidance of his father, Julio Pro (1929-2013), a successful Southwest wildlife painter. [...]
Would you like to understand more about composition and what makes a painting work? This week, a reader sent me an image of the above painting, along with a great idea – what if readers [...]
In the year 1855, the same that saw the first publication of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, American landscape painter Asher B. Durand published a series of nine letters on landscape painting in his son’s [...]
By Guest Contributor Todd Bonita Stop me if you’re heard this one, but as they say, paintings live or die based on underlying abstract design. Composition, therefore, is among the most important challenges students face. [...]
