Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore, Night o’er the ocean settles, dark and mute, Save where is heard the repercussive roar Of drowsy billows, on the rugged foot Of rocks remote; or still more [...]

A video recently made the rounds with a caption reading: This hidden painting was found recently at The Church of Saint George Maggiore.  Commenting on the viral video, the BBC wrote, “In a scene reminiscent of a classic mystery novel, [...]

There are many ways to start a painting, and some of them double as creative prompts, not just to get the brush moving but to get the imagination revved and running. For Northern Irish pastel [...]

Today we continue our recent Inside Art spotlight on this important American artist, and we begin with a poem by Emily Dickinson. We grow accustomed to the Dark— When Light is put away— As when [...]

Yes, it’s subjective: What one judge likes in a painting another judge snubs! But there are criteria for strong paintings that appeal to a wide audience based on commonly embraced technique and design characteristics. Artist [...]

Related > Charlie Hunter is also on the faculty of next week’s PleinAir Live! Virtual art conference, March 6-8, 2024 – join us! As a painter, where are you on the scale of realistic representation [...]

Art historians use the term Tonalism to describe an American artistic movement spanning from about 1880 to approximately 1920. More generally, the term (tonalism or tonalist with a lower case “t”) describes a style of [...]

At five and a half feet wide by seven and a half feet long, Zaria Forman’s pastel paintings are hard to ignore. Within them, art, science, and beauty mingle in equal measure.  For two decades, [...]

Pastel drawings and paintings glow with an intensely luminous color and rich velvety texture. This is because pastel powder is pure pigment. Many pastel lovers favor the mediums for its sensitive quality that aligns with [...]

Winner of the “Best Animals & Birds” category of the December 2023 PleinAir Salon, Biruta Hansen’s Who’s Hiding? depicts a partly camouflaged rabbit (our family calls the abundant critters “bunnies”) peeking out from a profusion [...]