These great paintings sift the sands of time

How to fast-track a strong composition

Painter Janet Fish stays the course

Hint: There's a time and a place...

Tonalist painters often place the importance of mood above all else.

Greens are tricky.

You are enough. Whatever you make, keep making it.

These oils predate the European "invention" of oil paining many hundreds of years.

"Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson In artistic creativity, spiritual teacher and self-help author Eckart Tolle says, "enthusiasm means there is deep enjoyment in what you do plus the added [...]

In his biography of his father, American landscape painter George Inness, Jr. recounts the following anecdote concerning a demo his father performed for a student who'd come to call: Inness "He (Inness) [...]