Corot’s Palette Revealed!
We now know exactly what pigments he used to create his gauzy, silvery tone poems.
Six Creative Exercises to Spark Inspiration
Stan Miller Shares Some of his Favorite Painting Prompts
The Spirit in Painting: Eduard Vuillard
How late 19th century painters outwitted photography.
For the Love of Art
Guest writer Stan Miller shares what motivates him to paint.
Paul Bonnard: The Painter as Prophet
The painting "Woman with a Dog" is more than it seems.
Hang It All!
These 3 keys make hanging your show a breeze
Raw Power from a Tiny House in Maine
Minimizing Detail for Maximum Expression
What to paint??
Ever get the urge to paint and not know what to make a painting of? You love the idea of painting, and you love the feeling of moving paint around - you even love the [...]
When Sargent Went Wild
Lush and loose plein air from the master portraitist.
Mysterious and Sublime
A Close Look at a Famous Work by Thomas Cole. According to notions of the sublime, the human element is dwarfed to the point of being overwhelmed by Nature, which is seen as a vast world of violent, churning forces coldly indifferent to any human suffering Nature might cause. For Cole, there were few things more sublime than Nature embodying God's wrath, as he painted in his dramatic Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden of 1828.