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? [...]

In 1883 Winslow Homer moved to the small coastal village of Prouts Neck, Maine, where he created a series of paintings of the sea unparalleled in American art, says the Art Institute of Chicago, which [...]

Anyone driving north from New York City or south toward New Jersey has passed the famous “Palisades” (or at least a sign for the Palisades Parkway ;) They’re a line of 300-foot-high gray basalt cliffs [...]

Dan McCaw is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in Torrance, California, alongside his two accomplished artist sons, John and Danny. Together, they share a studio environment that fosters exploration, dialogue, and a continual [...]

Love or hate the little critters (squirrels that is, not artists!), artists have been making paintings of squirrels for hundreds of years. A cursory glance at the history of squirrels in art begins with the [...]

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” -Andrew Wyeth [...]

Good art wakes us up and shakes us from tired thoughts and dull routines. That’s what brings many of us to the easel in the first place. And the longer we work at anything creative, [...]

It’s the waning autumn of the year. We’re seeing (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) the days shorten and the night-shadows creep in earlier each evening. Art shines a light that can counter the dark. [...]