By Guest Contributor Todd Bonita Stop me if you’re heard this one, but as they say, paintings live or die based on underlying abstract design. Composition, therefore, is among the most important challenges students face. [...]
Agnes Grochulska is known as an intuitive and expressive artist of portraiture and the figure. She’s interested in exploring “the big question,” the idea that art, by existing both om the artist’s and the viewer’s [...]
There’s no clear line between “beginner” and “intermediate.” But there are a few “next level” things painters with more than, say, a dozen or so canvases under their belt can look for to get better. [...]
Keiko Tanabe (check out her videos, "Storytelling with Watercolor" and "Painting Sunlight") was born in Kyoto, Japan. As a child growing up in an art-loving family, she always enjoyed drawing and painting and won many awards [...]
One of the great things about art is that it brings people together. Imagine our distant, hunter-gatherer ancestors, how they crowded into a low-ceilinged cave by candlelight to watch, as the flickering light made images [...]
Let’s talk a little about something you might find unduly mundane: paint brushes, brush care, cleaning a brush washer, and maybe a bit more interesting, how one professional artist chooses his brushes and utilizes them [...]
The creative adult is the child who survived.” — Ursula Le Guin As children, we know magic is real, the world is marvelous, and simply living each day is an adventure. But those of us [...]
Inspiration comes in many forms, and creativity is its currency. But where does creativity come from, and what even is it? It’s thought that childhood play and adult creativity originate in similar processes in the [...]
Johannes Vermeer’s The Art of Painting (c.1668) invites us to see in his work much more than consummate skill and flawless technique for capturing diffuse light from an unseen window (though … THERE’S THAT!). The more one looks, [...]
“Steal like an artist.” That’s the title of a popular self-empowerment book for artists and a phrase on lots of peoples’ lips these days. It’s a variation on “Good artists borrow, great artists steal!” which [...]
