Zoom in to a High-Res John Singer Sargent Plein Air
Last week we took a close look at a few landscapes by John Singer Sargent, but we didn’t get THIS close! In fact, most ordinary mortals will never get this close to a painting by [...]
The Universe in a Box
Today we’re turning aside from painting to visit a popular form of sculpture called assemblage. An assemblage is a sort of 3-D collage, wherein an artist puts together (assembles) various elements to create a new [...]
Mastering Design with Mountainscapes
Especially strong in design, Paul Kratter's paintings skillfully compose light, atmosphere, and expression of emotion. Paul comes from an illustration background that instilled strong drawing and design skills and a robust belief in graphic shapes [...]
Are You Being Best Artistic Self?
Art opens portals to timeless and exotic inner worlds. Whether looking or creating, the hours pass unnoticed – silent (but no less real) adventures befall us. Even if the effort exhausts us, we walk away [...]
Behind the Wall of Sleep
Eugène Carrière’s painting “The Sleep” (above) represents a woman and her infant sleeping side by side. Yet despite the close-up view, the blurry and sweeping mode of representation eludes the onlooker. The outlines of both [...]
How’s the Weather in Your Inner World?
“Form is never more than a revelation of content.” -Denise Levertov The American poet Denise Levertov used the term “organic form” to describe how all the parts of a work of art relate to the [...]
What Makes This Painting Great?
What Makes This Painting Great? An occasional series all about analyzing what makes paintings beautiful, iconic, memorable, or effective. Painters, beginners and masters alike, make leaps and bounds by studying creative triumphs of the art. [...]
It’s All in the Artist’s Eye
The painting above is by John Singer Sargent. It’s titled simply “Moraine” or “The Moraine,” which is so blunt and literal that we can assume the artist was more interested in the lights, shadows, and [...]
Springing Eternal
The Salon Springs Eternal! Every month the judges of the PleinAir Magazine Salon art competition select 100 of the best entries, from which the celebrity judge chooses the top winners overall as well as the [...]
Mountain Tips
Kathryn Stats has developed a keen eye for the landscape and nature. She wandered the Utah countryside on her horse until her early twenties and later studied with artists in the Salt Lake City area [...]