Last week we ran our picks for the “Top Five” films about artists (not documentaries, but mainstream studio dramatizations, of the genre known in Hollywood as the biopic). We asked what other artist biopics you [...]
By Rick J. Delanty A common thing we hear people say when they meet an artist is, “I’m not talented enough to paint.” Here, landscape painter Rick J. Delanty addresses this misconception. “Talent” should not be [...]
It must have come to him in a flash: thoroughbred horseracing was The Perfect Subject for his new style and approach to painting. It fit his friends, the Impressionists’, new mission for art: to paint [...]
As the visually oriented, process-obsessed seekers that we artists are, kicking back and taking in a movie related to our favorite subject is, apart from actually being at the easel, up there with as good [...]
There’s a simple reason that this photo makes a good foundation for a painting: The natural curvature and dynamic angles of the rocky ledges give it an eye-catching composition out of the gate. The scene [...]
BY LAURIE BASHAM For so many years I had “Imposter Syndrome.” I doubted myself and my abilities and always felt like I was faking it. I felt like this when I was teaching middle school [...]
It’s good for any artist, beginner, experienced, realist or otherwise, to have a sense of the inspiring stories of men and women who believed in themselves enough to place painting at the center of their [...]
I’ve a confession: the title of this post is a bit deceptive. When it comes to color mixing, there’s actually no such thing as “mud.” Don't believe me? Look at the colors that dominate the [...]
Landscape orientation tends to tempt one into stacking rectangles on top of each other. It can also lead us into the temptation of “stripes” – thin bands of horizontals that do nothing to keep the [...]
By their very nature as horizontal beasts, landscape paintings are prone to “stripey-ness.” They can become dominated by unbroken horizontal shapes stacked neatly one on top of the other. This can result in paintings that [...]
