Join us as Skip Whitcomb takes us on an insightful dive into what catches his eye when judging an art competition and how participants can make the most of jumping in. Mr. Whitcomb is an [...]

Just three words, LOOKING, THINKING, and PAINTING can radically change your artistic approach, your career, even as your life. It sounds gimmicky but it happened that way for me. Years ago, I shared some developing [...]

What a harvest is here in this still-life painting by the Flemish Baroque-period painter Jan Davidsz. de HEEM (1606-1684): a wooden table draped with a gold-fringed green velvet cloth, a glass of white wine and a [...]

Each December, and with annually increasing influence, the color company Pantone Colour Institute. announces the next year’s “Colour of the Year.” This year they’ve declared that for 2024, it’s what they’re calling “Peach Fuzz,” described [...]

By Shelby Keefe This is a photo I took when in Cuba with Eric Rhoads and 99 other people for the Paint Cuba trip back in 2016. I thought I was photographing this guy without [...]

It’s one of art’s most elusive of concepts - inspiration. Where does it come from? And is there anything we can do to make it come more often? One of the most important mindsets that [...]

So which will get you further, hard work or talent?  Is this even a legitimate question? One thing’s sure – using “lack of talent” as an excuse for not working hard isn’t going to get [...]

Winter’s arrival can bring a contemplative, philosophical turn to an artist’s mind. The faded dawns, gray-velvet afternoons and sparkling-clear nights can inflect paintings of winter with a quiet, melancholy stillness present at no other time [...]

Materials and Methods for Painting on Copper By Julio Reyes and Candice Bohannon We have often marveled at the beauty of oil paintings on copper in museums across the country, admiring their brilliant colors, the [...]

He was the most fashionable portraitist in the most fashionable place in the Western world: Parisian high society during the Belle Epoch, or “Beautiful Period” of 1871–1880, a golden age of aristocratic prosperity and joie de [...]