“Virtuosos of the OPA (Oil Painters of America)” has long been one of the most prestigious art competitions for traditional representational art in America. Leading OPA member Daniel Keys judged this year’s top painters. Daniel [...]
It’s one of the most poisonous enemies artists at level face over and over again – Imposter Syndrome: the feeling that you're a total fraud and it's just a matter of time before you're found [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Announcing the Winners of the October PleinAir Salon Art Competition Elaine Adams, Director of American Legacy Fine Arts has revealed her selections for the October 2025 PleinAir Salon Awards. Each of the 22 winners are [...]
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 [...]
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." – Shelley Thomas Cole melts our hearts when he ends his Course of Empire cycle with a hazy moon rising peacefully over the marble ruins of a classical [...]
Outbid at auction for Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 million 2019 work, titled “Comedian,” which consisted of a banana duct-taped to a wall? Then can I interest you in a $12 million work by the same artist, [...]
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 Guest Contributor Barb Walker This edition of Inside Art features a guest article and artwork by oil painter Barb Walker. I was stuck! My work was okay, but not where I wanted it to be. Is it ever? [...]
