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) [...]

More than 350 years after it was painted, Rembrandt van Rijn's Woman Bathing in a Stream remains as intriguing as it did in 1654.

Great art and literature give the vagabond human spirit a home.

You can't force inspiration, but you must be ready when it comes.