Maybe it happens when you’re driving: gold light strikes a line of trees against a darkened sky. Or at the mall: a stranger’s face opens a momentary window onto ages of human existence. Awe, wonder, [...]

“Art is a passion, or it is nothing” -Robert Fry Passion is what we chase in art and creativity. A day came when you read a novel, stood before a painting, watched someone create something [...]

Good artists imitate; great artists steal. This phrase is variously attributed to Steve Jobs (who misattributed it to Pablo Picasso - we’ll get to that), and to Lionel Trilling, Igor Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, and William [...]

People used to say, “Is there anything in it?” to question if you could benefit from something or whether it was a waste of time. As in, “What do you do?” Oh, I  work in the field [...]

If we listen, as the winter wanes, can we hear within the distant strains of far-off summer’s music a piping and a dancing, such as artists and sculptors have celebrated in many a work of [...]

It’s natural to assume that the subject of your painting (what it’s a painting of) is what affects your audience and gets feeling across. For example, you might expect a vase full of flowers to inspire [...]

Leonardo da Vinci is said to have maintained that “painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt rather than seen."  Indeed, painting and poetry often seem [...]

By Kelly Kane “Concerning my approach to my subject, it is not simply the rendition of objects, trees, rocks, flowers, or still life,” says Darryl Glenn Steele. “Instead, my concern is painting the moment — the [...]

We all could use a little more awe in our lives, and art is the perfect place to start. Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast or profound that leads [...]

When Kathryn Stats first started painting, she viewed painting as a fun hobby. That hobby quickly turned into a passion, not just for painting but for capturing light – as beautifully as possible. She started [...]