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 [...]

Plein Air watercolorist Keiko Tanabe ("Storytelling with Watercolor" and "Painting Sunlight") was born in Kyoto, Japan. As a child growing up in an art-loving family, she always enjoyed drawing and painting and won many awards in [...]

There’s a bank of trees in my neighbor’s yard, across the street from our house, that often stops and make me listen. This straight stand of pine trees (I’m told they’re called wind breaks, at [...]

You’ve heard it before: Good artists imitate; great artists steal. Well, guess what? It’s still true. And we still don’t know who actually said it. The phrase has been attributed to Steve Jobs (who misattributed it to [...]

Paul Kratter’s landscapes radiate a warm affection for the ground of their making, which is generally the American west, and often the coastal scenes, hillsides, rivers, streams and forests of California, where he makes his [...]

“To be free and yet not to lose touch with reality, that is the drama of that epic figure who is variously called inventor, artist, or poet.” - Fernand Leger Kitchen Wall, unknown Dutch artist, [...]

Chantel Barber is among the faculty who’ll be demoing their techniques at the inaugural Acrylic Live event happening online March 25-28, 2025. Join Chantel at Acrylic Live as she creates a dynamic portrait sketch by building [...]

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." - Rene Magritte One of art's important jobs is to remind us that not everything about our experience of the world is known or [...]