What's the difference between one painting that mesmerizes and captivates, and another that barely catches a glance? Some say it's skill or technique, but if that were all that mattered, why would so many technically [...]

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut liked to tell a story about something someone said to him as a fifteen-year-old kid that eventually enabled him to become the imaginative writer he became. He was on an archeological dig [...]

Patrick Faile grew up in rural South Carolina where he developed a deep connection to nature and wildlife. He discovered art at a young age and thrived in his only formal art education through the [...]

Clyde Aspevig teaches his oil painting approach and technique in his video, ASPEVIG. “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler Life’s complex. Nothing is as simple as we’d like, and that [...]

How does he do it? Well, sometimes he trades a brush for a squeegee. Learn how from his instructional video, Painting with Intuition. “Loose as ashes,” a friend of mine, Don Oulette used to say. [...]

When America’s first great landscape painter, Thomas Cole, began painting the trees, rivers and mountains of the northeastern U.S. in the 1830s, he was aiming for a union of the sublime and the beautiful (or [...]

An important but largely overlooked figure in the history of painting is Eugène Carrière. He  was a Parisian oil painter and print-engraver whose work resonates with tonalistic poetry in abundance. No less a talent than [...]

I hiked a ways from the parking site to find this lake and beautiful setting close to the port town of Mallaig. When Stephen Quiller conducts a workshop out of the country, he often extends his stay [...]