There’s a surprising story behind Monet’s Poplars series.  Not that he was some sort of all-powerful art god or something (spoiler: he was), but Claude Monet once diverted a branch of the Epte River. Though [...]

Oil and pastel painter William Schneider credits several sources for his work today. He’s taken workshops with some of the world’s best artists and has devoted  hours to copying realist masters like Nicolai Fechin. His epiphany with [...]

There’s a surprising story behind Monet’s Poplars series.  Not that he was some sort of all-powerful art god or something (spoiler: he was), but Claude Monet once diverted a branch of the Epte River. Though [...]

We know there’s all kinds of good magic in art. Maybe that’s partly why artists over the centuries have created such richly imagined and beguiling scenes of mythological wizards, witches and magicians doing their magical [...]

On trip to the warmer Mediterranean coast, French painter Paul Cézanne fell in love with the little fishing village of L’Estaque on the bay of the city of Marseilles. It was the color, made brilliant [...]

Arnold Bocklin’s painting, “The Tombstone,” depicts a hauntingly serene island cemetery surrounded by dark, towering trees and reflected in still waters. A single tombstone stands at the center, evoking a sense of solitude, mystery, and [...]

Internationally known artist Matt Ryder works out of the coastal-mountain region around the city of Dubai, U.A.E. Originally from the UK, he found himself in Dubai a bit more than 15 years ago (life choices [...]

Would you like to understand more about composition and what makes a painting work? This week, a reader sent me an image of the above painting, along with a great idea – what if readers [...]

"Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson When it comes to anything, but especially to artistic creativity, spiritual teacher and self-help author Eckart Tolle says, "enthusiasm means there is deep enjoyment [...]

In the year 1855, the same that saw the first publication of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, American landscape painter Asher B. Durand published a series of nine letters on landscape painting in his son’s [...]