Think plein air in Maine, and chances are you’ll think “Monhegan.” But before that rock-bound island community took the crown, another and more accessible locale was king – the southern Maine town of Ogunquit, which [...]
What makes an award-winning painting? Lots of things, but subject matter, at least, can be as varied as you can imagine. Among the winning paintings that Master Artist Kathleen Dunphy selected for the June 2024 PleinAir Salon [...]
In Karen Margulis’s pastel painting “Color by the Sea,” above, the artist composes an eclectic (and potentially clashing) mix of hues. At a glance, we get a playful jumble of colors, a combination of cool [...]
What is it about William Nicholson’s painting The Lustre Bowl with Green Peas that impresses itself on the imagination and memory? Somehow Sir William Nicholson’s “simple” still life transforms just three everyday items – a [...]
This edition of Inside Art corrects an error in the previous Salon spotlight edition. “Inchoate” (in-KO-ate) is an unusual word that means something just started, not yet fully formed. Annie Murphy-Robinson used the descriptor in [...]
“Inchoate” (in-KO-ate) is an unusual word that means something just started, not yet fully formed. Annie Murphy-Robinson used the descriptor in the title of her salon-winning charcoal “Emily ‘Inchoate.’” There was nothing in the least [...]
We hear a lot about “getting light into your painting” but there was an entire movement of American landscape painting in the nineteenth-century that made it practically the whole subject of their work. Less a [...]
Claude Monet loved to paint the sea, and a quick study of some his best as well as some lesser-known paintings of the ocean can teach practicing artists sound fundamental skills when diving into a [...]
In a letter to Douglas Cooper in January 1955, Russian-French painter Nicolas de Staël wrote: “True painting, always attempts to include all aspects, the impossible addition of the present, past and future.” There’s a lot [...]
Don’t apologize for your work. Because actually, failure is good for you – and you know it! Obviously critiques of your work are, by nature, uncomfortable. You look at everybody else’s paintings, you feel that [...]
