We all could use a little more awe in our lives, and art is the perfect place to start. Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast or profound that leads [...]

When Kathryn Stats first started painting, she viewed painting as a fun hobby. That hobby quickly turned into a passion, not just for painting but for capturing light – as beautifully as possible. She started [...]

Cityscapes can range from decorative to abstract, and from visceral to hyper-realistic. Here we take a near-random sampling of the genre through time, beginning with the golden age of Japanese color woodblock prints. These works [...]

So often the reality of our paintings falls short of our ability to envision them - we can “see” the most beautiful paintings in our imagination, but in reality, that beauty eludes us. It’s often [...]

Vincent Van Gogh’s still life paintings rivet the viewer with the same expressive immediacy and presence as do his vividly intoxicating landscapes and portraits. This is true of even the humblest of his motifs, including [...]

By GUEST CONTRIBUTOR Julie Gilbert Pollard I’m always looking to loosen-up my painting technique - and because splatter is so random-looking it lends itself nicely to that goal. Sometimes, however, it is TOO random and [...]

There is a lot of superb contemporary realism and figurative art being made by thoughtful individuals, one of whom is Miles Cleveland Goodwin   I almost titled this “The One-Man Southern Gothic Revival of Miles [...]

By Kathy Anderson Kathy Anderson  lives her artistic life always remembering the best lesson she has learned through her long relationship with Richard Schmid, her mentor and friend: Paint from life, and let painting be [...]

Artistic inspiration is a powerful force that drives creativity and fuels the passion of artists. It can come from all over the place – your experiences of life, the world, and the work of other [...]

French Impressionism was officially born in Paris during the autumn salon season of 1874. Lambasting a pop-up exhibition by a bunch of rogue bohemian artists, a critic scoffing at Claude Monet’s painting, an “Impression” of [...]