"This one weird trick" will actually improve your paintings.

Thomas Cole's warning about the impermanence of civilizations.

It's about how you paint as much as what you paint.

Who doesn't want to "make it," to be discovered, to ARRIVE in all caps?

Inspirational notes on freshness and "truth" in painting.

Most paintings live or die right at the start.

Why do mermaids proliferate in art?

In most paintings, perfect perspective is moot

Monet was still going gangbusters when his eyesight began to fail.