Painters Kyle Buckland and Mark Fehlman have very different styles and both create impactful paintings. Not coincidentally, they both place design and composition firmly at the center of their painting and teaching practices. “Successful designs [...]
“Art does not reproduce the visible, rather, it makes visible.” - Paul Klee Art and artists live in two worlds, a visible one and an invisible one. Art makes invisible visible. When an imaginative artist [...]
Have you been dogged by a nagging feeling that something’s wrong with a painting you’re working on? Not just “off” or “not great” but something fundamentally, foundationally wrong? Very often, your problem isn’t the drawing [...]
The tale of Orpheus and Eurydice ranks among the most often depicted Greek myths in Western art. It’s the ultimate tragic love story, but perhaps the Orpheus and Eurydice myth appeals to the artistic imagination [...]
New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently posted on social media a typically on-target take on some extraordinary paintings he found himself standing in front of. Saltz says and writes lots of things about the [...]
When artists refer to “quality of line,” part of what’s meant is sensitivity to how the line is drawn as well as how the lines relate to and express the subject. The heaviness or lightness [...]
Once upon a time an ornery, young, and unknown artist in his early 20’s named Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni heard that his first big public commission was being attributed to a second-rate rival. So, [...]
What You Should Know The legend of the “lover’s leap” is found all over the Americas and the world. It was a particularly popular motif in one form or another during the Victorian period, peaking [...]
Carl Bretzke’s painting Diner After Dark (above), resonates with a timeless quiet. We could be anywhere in America. Maybe at first we expect a nostalgic moment of vanished drive-ins and Hopper-esque iconography, but a closer [...]
Don’t worry about matching the colors the teacher is using. If a pro is demoing a sunset, let’s say, her students often want to know exactly what red and what yellow to mix in which proportions [...]
