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 [...]

On trip to the warmer Mediterranean coast, French painter Paul Cézanne fell in love with the little fishing village of L’Estaque on the bay of the city of Marseilles. It was the color, made brilliant [...]

Arnold Bocklin’s painting, “The Tombstone,” depicts a hauntingly serene island cemetery surrounded by dark, towering trees and reflected in still waters. A single tombstone stands at the center, evoking a sense of solitude, mystery, and [...]

Internationally known artist Matt Ryder works out of the coastal-mountain region around the city of Dubai, U.A.E. Originally from the UK, he found himself in Dubai a bit more than 15 years ago (life choices [...]

"Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson When it comes to anything, but especially to artistic creativity, spiritual teacher and self-help author Eckart Tolle says, "enthusiasm means there is deep enjoyment [...]