On trip to the warmer Mediterranean coast, French painter Paul Cézanne fell in love with the little fishing village of L’Estaque on the bay of the city of Marseilles. It was the color, made brilliant [...]

Arnold Bocklin’s painting, “The Tombstone,” depicts a hauntingly serene island cemetery surrounded by dark, towering trees and reflected in still waters. A single tombstone stands at the center, evoking a sense of solitude, mystery, and [...]

Internationally known artist Matt Ryder works out of the coastal-mountain region around the city of Dubai, U.A.E. Originally from the UK, he found himself in Dubai a bit more than 15 years ago (life choices [...]

"Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson When it comes to anything, but especially to artistic creativity, spiritual teacher and self-help author Eckart Tolle says, "enthusiasm means there is deep enjoyment [...]

Agnes Grochulska is known as an intuitive and expressive artist of portraiture and the figure. She’s interested in exploring “the big question,” the idea that art, by existing both om the artist’s and the viewer’s [...]

There’s no clear line between “beginner” and “intermediate.” But there are a few “next level” things painters with more than, say, a dozen or so canvases under their belt can look for to get better. [...]

One of the great things about art is that it brings people together.  Imagine our distant, hunter-gatherer ancestors, how they crowded into a low-ceilinged cave by candlelight to watch, as the flickering light made images [...]

The creative adult is the child who survived.” — ​​Ursula Le Guin As children, we know magic is real, the world is marvelous, and simply living each day is an adventure.  But those of us [...]

Inspiration comes in many forms, and creativity is its currency. But where does creativity come from, and what even is it? It’s thought that childhood play and adult creativity originate in similar processes in the [...]

Johannes Vermeer’s The Art of Painting (c.1668) invites us to see in his work much more than consummate skill and flawless technique for capturing diffuse light from an unseen window (though … THERE’S THAT!). The more one looks, [...]