By Mitchell Albala Abstraction isn’t unique to landscape painting, but the natural world does wonderfully lend itself to the approach. When we consider nature’s range of light and her many atmospheric moods, her variety of colors, [...]
They say there isn’t a major museum in the world that doesn’t own counterfeit works, some even misattributed to very famous artists (e.g. by a recent count, 20% of all art in museums in the [...]
“Pastel as a medium is rapidly gaining recognition around the world, and it’s one that simply cannot be ignored,” said Eric Rhoads at the 4th annual Pastel Live (September 18-20). “Whether you’ve alreadyz mastered other art forms [...]
Five Ways I Recharge My Creative Batteries By Guest Contributor PAT FIORELLO If you’ve been painting for any length of time, you know it’s natural to go through periods of great energy and inspiration and other [...]
by Devin Cecil-Wishing This painting of an egret was done from a taxidermy bird which I purchased for use in a larger composition I intend to paint soon. Before starting work on the larger painting, [...]
Can a landscape be epic? That’s the question RISD professor and artist-printmaker Nancy Friese asks in a brief essay on the painting titled “Rain on the River,” created in 1908 by a young American “Ashcan [...]
“We do what we must, and call it the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.” – Emerson (Experience) The key is to be wild but [...]
Caravaggio’s masterful “The Inspiration of Saint Matthew” remains a priceless treasure of European art. However, it wasn’t universally admired and almost didn’t get hung – or painted – at all. As you can see from [...]
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. [...]
