What She Didn’t Know She Needed
Beth Bathe shares the story of an unexpected connection while painting in Scotland
The Painting Lesson Hidden in Every Sunset
Hint: it starts with value, not color.
Happy 250th, America! 🇺🇸
Childe Hassam’s patriotic obsession
Proportion Is a Puzzle. Here’s How to Crack It.
Measuring tricks that change everything
A Watercolorist’s Most Honest Confession
Chien Chung-Wei reveals the reason he gave up everything he’d work a lifetime to achieve.
Between a Rock and a Soft Place
Matt Ryder on Painting Rocks and Flowers
What the Light Does When No One Is Looking
Carl Bretzke sees what most painters miss. Here’s how.
Perfect Is Overrated
The secret to a more compelling composition isn’t mirror-like symmetry — it’s knowing how to achieve balance without it.
Meet the Painter Couple Asking the Biggest Questions in Art Right Now
The work of Richard Thomas Scott and Jordan Nobuko Baker spans magical realism, vanitas still life, and some of the most urgent questions in contemporary art.
What Most Portrait Painters Get Wrong
and How Lyn Diefenbach Gets It Right