In a post last week we put it out there: What are the freshest, go-to sources for art news and inspiration on the Web (except of course, for Inside Art and Streamline’s sister publications 🙂 ? [...]

This ought to be taped above my easel, my computer, the door to my life.  But it isn’t, because it wouldn’t do any good. I can tell myself this a thousand times, I can tell [...]

The human need to examine itself in the mirror of art begins with early civilization, and portraiture is one of its classic and oldest forms.  As far as we can tell from history, the portrait begins in [...]

Vermeer's painting, Lady at the Virginal with a Gentleman - The Music Lesson, (variously known as The Music Lesson, Woman Seated at a Virginal or A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman) is as much a study in subtlety and [...]

Water adds brightness and life to paintings, no matter the medium. Adding the gleam of a sunset or late afternoon light transforms a foreground otherwise dull and dark into a fascinating  that pulls a viewer [...]

Writer Matt Cardin calls it “creativity’s hidden paradox,” and it goes like this: “What is most private and personal in you is also what is most universal.” He means that what is deep in you [...]

Where do you get your inspiration online? Between podcasts, YouTube, online magazines, blogs, and the vast reach and immediacy of social media, what are some of your favorite sources for news and views on painting? [...]

“My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as [...]

Earlier this month, artist Jonathon Yeo ignited massive artworld controversy when his official portrait of King Charles III was unveiled at London’s Royal Palace on May 14.  Yeo shows King Charles shrouded in a bath [...]

First, congratulate yourself for even getting as far as contemplating doing this: painting nature as it appears to your mind and senses is an extraordinary way of relating to yourself and the world! It begins [...]