There are three main things to know about the main center of interest or “focal point” that every painting is supposed to have (four if you count the one that says actually not every painting [...]

An important engraving by one of the world’s most renowned draftsmen, Albrecht Dürer, fetched $44K at auction last week after being rescued from a garbage dump by an eleven-year-old boy. The work is a rare [...]

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 [...]

“I have learned more about painting through abstraction than I have in all my years as a realist painter,” says artist Larry Moore. “One method informs the other. It’s like a story with no ending.” [...]

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn [...]

California Impressionist Brian Blood, a resident of Pebble Beach, California, is one of California’s most successful plein air artists and a master of composition and design. There are two devices in particular at work in his [...]

Join art publisher Eric Rhoads on Art School Live as he gives you free art instruction in pastel painting with artist Lyn Diefenbach. Lyn is on the faculty of our upcominbg online art conference, Pastel Live, [...]

I find it strange that people who make art hesitate to call themselves artists. I know lots of “people who paint” or “just mess around,” or worse, “used to be” artists but now just “paint [...]

When Monet’s early seascape, “The Green Wave,” debuted at the 1879 Impressionist exhibition, a critic called out Monet for being "directly influenced by Manet." He had a point. Eduard Manet pioneered the same flattening of [...]