“October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near [...]

Plein Air Live is the largest, professionally run, live learning opportunity for plein air artists. Two dozen of the country’s leading plein air artists will be giving live demos, answering questions, and sharing their tips, tricks, [...]

“Spirit” by George Roux (above) is an almost whimsical rendering of turn-of-the-century ideas about “phantasmagoria,” that is, disembodied spirits and ghosts. The glowing spirit of a beautiful young woman, her dress trailing into transparency, runs [...]

One of the greatest paintings of the 19th century, JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire depicts a formerly glorious jewel of the British Royal Navy being towed to "her last berth" for retirement from service and ultimate [...]

You can learn almost everything you need to know about composition by closely studying successful ones. To that end, we recently invited you, our readers, to send us paintings for our “Compose Yourself!” series of [...]

Some artists create paintings that are like love letters to the visible world. Maybe it happens like this: The creative imagination receives a gift from nature in the shape of an apple, a bowl, a [...]

There’s a surprising story behind Monet’s Poplars series.  Not that he was some sort of all-powerful art god or something (spoiler: he was), but Claude Monet once diverted a branch of the Epte River. Though [...]

Oil and pastel painter William Schneider credits several sources for his work today. He’s taken workshops with some of the world’s best artists and has devoted  hours to copying realist masters like Nicolai Fechin. His epiphany with [...]

There’s a surprising story behind Monet’s Poplars series.  Not that he was some sort of all-powerful art god or something (spoiler: he was), but Claude Monet once diverted a branch of the Epte River. Though [...]

We know there’s all kinds of good magic in art. Maybe that’s partly why artists over the centuries have created such richly imagined and beguiling scenes of mythological wizards, witches and magicians doing their magical [...]