A Guest Post By John Hughes What’s Holding You Back in your Quest to Become a Better Painter? Probably the same thing that challenged my progress as an aspiring artist many years ago, and the [...]

Don’t let a lack of knowledge of composition hold you back from making better paintings. The key to developing an intuitive understanding of composition is not to memorize individual compositions but to internalize dynamic design.  [...]

In an article published not too long ago in The Atlantic, Arthur C. Brooks argued that art is as important to human helath as exercise and good nutrition. Art needn’t be primarily an escapist activity [...]

When artists refer to “quality of line,” part of what’s meant is sensitivity to the subject as well as how the line is drawn. The heaviness or lightness of pressure, the varied thickness or thinness, [...]

There are three main things to know about the main center of interest or “focal point” that every painting is supposed to have (four if you count the one that says actually not every painting [...]

An important engraving by one of the world’s most renowned draftsmen, Albrecht Dürer, fetched $44K at auction last week after being rescued from a garbage dump by an eleven-year-old boy. The work is a rare [...]

What's the difference between one painting that mesmerizes and captivates, and another that barely catches a glance? Some say it's skill or technique, but if that were all that mattered, why would so many technically [...]

“I have learned more about painting through abstraction than I have in all my years as a realist painter,” says artist Larry Moore. “One method informs the other. It’s like a story with no ending.” [...]

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn [...]