"I can't even draw a straight line." If I’ve heard that once, I’ve heard it 1,000 times. The proper answer, of course, is “You don’t have to!” For that matter, plenty of people who become [...]

By Jeremy Caniglia jeremycaniglia.com Mimesis — the copying of a masterwork — has been a key part of painters’ training since classical antiquity. As musicians must learn basic instrumental techniques before developing their own styles, [...]

Once you master some of the technical basics of plein air painting, you might start to wonder,  how you give your work more life? One place to start is with feeling – and getting it [...]

The brilliant Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi worked over 20 years on a series celebrating the theme of a bird in flight. Yet he never sculpted the bird; he concentrated on the animal’s movement, rather than its [...]

“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.” -Robert Henri   Can you combine rule-breaking wildness with a disciplined and authentic expression of the search for meaning?  A chorus of frustrated painters’ [...]

One look at the paintings of Martin Geiger (b. 1997) and it’s evident where his artistic education took place: the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he earned a certificate after four [...]

Late in his career, American painter Winslow Homer moved to a remote spot next to the ocean, where he painted the turbulent weather and remorseless waves near his home and studio in Prouts Neck, Maine. [...]

How much time and energy do you waste getting caught up in comparing yourself to other artists?  It’s pretty much unavoidable and it’s usually not healthy. However, there are ways to pull yourself out of [...]

NYC-based oil painter Devin Cecil-Wishing shares his thoughts on traditional painting and art as a language in its own world. By Devin Cecil-Wishing “As much as anything, I’m trying to get in touch with a [...]