Jennifer leads you through this exact painting in her Streamline teaching video, “Painting with Style." To get better, intermediate painters (which I count as anyone with more than, say, a dozen or so canvases under [...]
Painting is about feeling, evocation, and “stories” (in the widest sense). The paintings that stay with us often touch upon the mysteries of life, transporting us into realms of mind, imagination, and emotion. But how [...]
Master Artist William A. Schneider has revealed his selections for the November 2025 PleinAir Salon art competition. “My advice to artists entering the salon is: Don’t be shy about entering a good painting in several categories. When the jurying [...]
He was water’s chosen prodigy, the artist every majestic pool and eddy gleaming in shadow or sun chose as faithful champion and mirror. Norwegian Impressionist Frits Thaulow painted people and places, but he also travelled [...]
They weren’t just painting the land – they wanted to reveal its inherent character – and the way it made them feel. The greatest Russian and Ukrainian landscape paintings of the mid 19th to early [...]
Tony Pro 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. Pro received his Bachelor of Arts [...]
It’s natural to assume that the subject of your painting (what it’s a painting of) is what affects your audience and gets feeling across. For example, you might expect a vase full of flowers to [...]
It's a dark, Symbolist masterpiece depicting the legendary moment when a hunter sees a glowing crucifix between a stag's antlers, symbolizing a divine calling. Franz von Stuck’s “The Vision of Saint Hubert” (1890) presents the [...]
“You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.” – Winslow Homer Winslow Homer’s watercolors are rarely shown en masse because they’re vulnerable, as are all watercolors, to fading from exposure to [...]
Norman Rockwell’s work will be the subject of a 2026 exhibition at Vermont’s Shelbourne Museum June 20 – October 25, 2026. Norman Rockwell: At Home in Vermont will explore how Rockwell (1894–1978) shaped an idealized [...]
