By Jessica L. Bryant A step-by-step demonstration of how Jessica L. Bryant turns a plein air painting into a studio piece. A signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Northwest Watercolor Society, [...]
We hear a lot about “getting light into your painting” but there was an entire movement of American landscape painting in the nineteenth-century that made it practically the whole subject of their work. Less a [...]
Claude Monet loved to paint the sea, and a quick study of some his best as well as some lesser-known paintings of the ocean can teach practicing artists sound fundamental skills when diving into a [...]
In a letter to Douglas Cooper in January 1955, Russian-French painter Nicolas de Staël wrote: “True painting, always attempts to include all aspects, the impossible addition of the present, past and future.” There’s a lot [...]
By Barb Walker Barbwalkerpaintings.com I grew up in the ‘60s. Now much later in my life I often take a journey back to those sweetest of voices and some of the best music that was [...]
By Jill Stefani Wagner https://www.jillwagnerart.com I have a confession to make. For a good part of my life, I was often terrified of new challenges and the possibility of failure. Whether in my advertising career [...]
Don’t apologize for your work. Because actually, failure is good for you – and you know it! Obviously critiques of your work are, by nature, uncomfortable. You look at everybody else’s paintings, you feel that [...]
The brilliant Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi worked over 20 years on a series celebrating the theme of a bird in flight. As we recently noted in a previous piece on wildness in art, he never sculpted [...]
This painting, with its extraordinary history, played a pivotal role in the 21st century renewal of interest in classical realism. If you’ve ever visited the website of the Art Renewal Center (ARC) , a non-profit [...]
"I can't even draw a straight line." If I’ve heard that once, I’ve heard it 1,000 times. The proper answer, of course, is “You don’t have to!” For that matter, plenty of people who become [...]
