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 [...]

Sometime in New York City around 2007 several early and mid-career artists gathered around the studio of Chinese American watercolorist Paul Ching-Bor. Ching-Bor is known for dynamic, large-format watercolors of urban scenery. Since going their [...]

In a fascinating, well-written, gorgeously designed and photographed new book, Emma Jansson meticulously documents what every Zorn admirer has always wanted to know: how did this virtuoso of oil painting seemingly do the impossible again [...]

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the [...]

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." - Rachel Carson Art can be a marvelous way of waking up. Our modern lives tend toward [...]

Claude Monet, not that he was some sort of all-powerful art god or something (spoiler: he was), once diverted a branch of the Epte River. Though it sounds like something only heroes like Hercules can [...]

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut liked to tell the story of something someone said to him as a fifteen-year-old that eventually allowed him to become the imaginative writer he became. He was on an archeological dig and [...]