Icon of 19th century American painting Thomas Cole often found himself disillusioned with the very public he’d helped create for his work. Though he touched off the historically important Hudson River School style, by the [...]

“The night is the time when all things are possible, when the world is a vast, dark canvas, ways writer Sylvain Reynard, “waiting to be painted with the colors of our dreams.”  If Pythagoras was [...]

Artist and author Larry Moore and his cousin Holly Barbo (who’s also an author) have uncovered an entire children’s book beautifully written and illustrated by their grandmother and shepherded it into print – nearly 100 [...]

Rick J. Delanty, “Yosemite Snowfield,” acrylic, 12 x 9 in. Rick will demonstrate how this painting was created during “Acrylic Live,” the upcoming inaugural online event happening March 26-28, 2025. Check it out here. The [...]

Most recently we basked in Joaquin Sorolla’s celebrated mastery of light (see Sunshine on a Brush). In this post we go deeper – by staying on the surface. This painting, “A Street in Toledo (Una [...]

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.   - Bill Blass Red is the rose, the heart, the passion, the lifeblood of the living. It’s also STOP, danger, the dreaded red pen, play with fire and [...]

Almost literally luminous, the seascapes of 19th century American artist William Trost Richards (1833 – 1905) can claim an honored place in the history of American landscape painting.  Though unjustly not exactly a household name, [...]

From radioactive threat to saintly halo to honeybee fur, yellow shines, the most luminous of the primaries. Whether strident, dazzling, or molten, yellow is light, intense and uncontainable, symbolic of joy, youth, strength, and divine [...]