For a long time, acrylics had its devotees and its detractors – either you loved them or you avoided them, mostly because they dry super-fast. However, newer trends have enabled acrylics to behave more like [...]
(Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art - Revised Mobile Museum of Art October 12, 2024–February 2, 2025 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art June 12–September 17, 2025 There’s still time to see (Un)Settled: The Landscape [...]
Icon of 19th century American painting Thomas Cole often found himself disillusioned with the very public he’d helped create for his work. Though he touched off the historically important Hudson River School style, by the [...]
Nathanael Gray focused his painting for an entire year by painting in the Lake Tahoe Basin. At the end of it all, he selected his best and exhibited them in a show titled “A Year [...]
“The night is the time when all things are possible, when the world is a vast, dark canvas, ways writer Sylvain Reynard, “waiting to be painted with the colors of our dreams.” If Pythagoras was [...]
Artist and author Larry Moore and his cousin Holly Barbo (who’s also an author) have uncovered an entire children’s book beautifully written and illustrated by their grandmother and shepherded it into print – nearly 100 [...]
“Why do I have to explain my art, can’t they just look at it?” Of course they can look at it, but if you're running away from writing an artist statement, you’re missing out on [...]
Canadian artist Andrew Judd has won first place in the latest round of the monthly PleinAIr salon. Master Artist Dean Mitchell judged this round, winners of which were announced on Dec 30th and will be [...]
Rick J. Delanty, “Yosemite Snowfield,” acrylic, 12 x 9 in. Rick will demonstrate how this painting was created during “Acrylic Live,” the upcoming inaugural online event happening March 26-28, 2025. Check it out here. The [...]
Most recently we basked in Joaquin Sorolla’s celebrated mastery of light (see Sunshine on a Brush). In this post we go deeper – by staying on the surface. This painting, “A Street in Toledo (Una [...]
