How to Give and Get Constructive Criticism
A major difference between constructive and destructive criticism is how it’s delivered.
Painting for Peace
Artists in Ukraine have not only continued to work but have doubled down on their efforts to stay creative and demonstrate strength by producing art and posting it online, donating the proceeds.
Soulful Abstraction
Like many a plein air or studio landscape painter, Rebecca Crowell’s paintings arise from nature, or more specifically, from her emotional responses to the natural forms, colors, and atmospheres she connects with wherever she goes.
Fill Your Portraits with Life
Getting an accurate image down is hard enough, then there's getting the LIFE into it.
For the Love of Color
How do you choose your colors? Beyond accuracy, what is color's role in your paintings?
The Flowering of Ukrainian Artist Kateryna Bilokur
Kateryna Bilokur was a Ukrainian folk artist whose work became known in the 1930s and '40s.
Is There Anything In It?
You can waste a lot of mental energy worrying over whether your work is too abstract or too representational...
Weave Yourself into Your Art
The sources of our own creativity are so organic and so close to us we often ignore or don't even notice when they knock.
Plein Air Poetry
Plein air painters may well want to borrow a page or two from the Tonalist playbook.
Looking, Thinking, Painting
I believe with Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940) that “a picture is a thought or feeling expressed in terms of Nature.”