Six Steps to a Still Life

Realist painter David Leffel’s work has been popular for decades, and he’s been teaching students his technique for just as long. Using an “all-in-one-go” style of direct painting called “alla prima,” Leffel combined the look [...]

By |2024-08-23T19:33:01-04:00August 23rd, 2024|

Painting Under Pressure

When I was an art director in the advertising field, panic deadlines seemed to squeeze out the best creative ideas from myself and my other advertising coworkers. The best ideas often got going sometime after [...]

By |2024-08-20T14:58:44-04:00August 20th, 2024|

How to Read Color

In Karen Margulis’s pastel painting “Color by the Sea,” above, the artist composes an eclectic (and potentially clashing) mix of hues. At a glance, we get a playful jumble of colors, a combination of cool [...]

By |2024-08-14T10:37:05-04:00August 14th, 2024|

The Luster Bowl

What is it about William Nicholson’s painting The Lustre Bowl with Green Peas that impresses itself on the imagination and memory? Somehow Sir William Nicholson’s “simple” still life transforms just three everyday items – a [...]

By |2024-08-12T21:18:34-04:00August 12th, 2024|

In the Dark and the Light

“Inchoate” (in-KO-ate) is an unusual word that means something just started, not yet fully formed. Annie Murphy-Robinson used the descriptor in the title of her salon-winning charcoal “Emily ‘Inchoate.’” There was nothing in the least [...]

By |2024-08-09T12:56:55-04:00August 9th, 2024|
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