Brighten Up!

Better a bright painting than a dull one, yes? Who doesn’t like a painting full of light and vitality (although don’t get me wrong, there’s a place for somber and melancholy work too, I hasten [...]

By |2025-12-11T11:13:34-05:00December 11th, 2025|

Living the Wild Life

The work of wildlfie painter Hayley Johnson was recently the subject of a one-person show at New Hampshire’s Rochester Museum of Art. The paintings in “Anchors in Memory,” were large, colorful stylizations of critters including foxes, [...]

By |2025-12-10T11:41:15-05:00December 10th, 2025|

Letting Color Lead

There are many ways to start a painting, and some of them double as creative prompts, not just to get the brush moving but to get the imagination revved and running. For Northern Irish pastel [...]

By |2025-12-08T11:52:53-05:00December 8th, 2025|

How to Paint Loose

Howard Friedland, “Virgina Falls Revisited” (detail). Friedland, whose method is not that different from Charles Hawthorne’s vibrant "spots of color" approach, has a video on painting waterfalls. "Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what [...]

By |2025-12-03T10:56:56-05:00December 3rd, 2025|
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