A Watercolorist’s Most Honest Confession
Chien Chung-Wei reveals the reason he gave up everything he’d work a lifetime to achieve.
What the Light Does When No One Is Looking
Carl Bretzke sees what most painters miss. Here’s how.
Perfect Is Overrated
The secret to a more compelling composition isn’t mirror-like symmetry — it’s knowing how to achieve balance without it.
Meet the Painter Couple Asking the Biggest Questions in Art Right Now
The work of Richard Thomas Scott and Jordan Nobuko Baker spans magical realism, vanitas still life, and some of the most urgent questions in contemporary art.
What Most Portrait Painters Get Wrong
and How Lyn Diefenbach Gets It Right
Why Did the Opera Ask a Painter to Help Tell This Story?
Clyde Aspevig Paints the Heart of “A River Runs Through It”
The Painter Who Chose Joy
Why Renoir’s happiest paintings are also his greatest
The Best Painters Don’t Know Any Secrets. Daniel J. Keys Can Prove It.
Daniel J. Keys wins the 15th Annual PleinAir Salon Grand Prize at the Plein Air Convention. Plus: the art competition relaunches as The Salon Art Prize with $65,000 in prizes for landscape, still life, portrait, and studio painters.
They Called His Work Unfinished. He Called It a Symphony.
What Whistler Knew That His Critics Didn’t
What I Brought Home From the Ozarks
Plein air painting tips, demo highlights, and Ozarks landscapes from the 2026 Plein Air Convention, plus a preview of 2027 at Zion and Bryce Canyon.