Announcing the Winners of the October PleinAir Salon Art Competition Elaine Adams, Director of American Legacy Fine Arts has revealed her selections for the October 2025 PleinAir Salon Awards. Each of the 22 winners are [...]
There are many ways to start a painting, and some of them double as creative prompts, not just to get the brush moving but to get the imagination revved and running. For Northern Irish pastel [...]
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." – Shelley Thomas Cole melts our hearts when he ends his Course of Empire cycle with a hazy moon rising peacefully over the marble ruins of a classical [...]
Outbid at auction for Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 million 2019 work, titled “Comedian,” which consisted of a banana duct-taped to a wall? Then can I interest you in a $12 million work by the same artist, [...]
Howard Friedland, “Virgina Falls Revisited” (detail). Friedland, whose method is not that different from Charles Hawthorne’s vibrant "spots of color" approach, has a video on painting waterfalls. "Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what [...]
By Guest Contributor Barb Walker This edition of Inside Art features a guest article and artwork by oil painter Barb Walker. I was stuck! My work was okay, but not where I wanted it to be. Is it ever? [...]
In 1883 Winslow Homer moved to the small coastal village of Prouts Neck, Maine, where he created a series of paintings of the sea unparalleled in American art, says the Art Institute of Chicago, which [...]
“In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit and give us only the spirit and splendor.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Donald Demers, [...]
Anyone driving north from New York City or south toward New Jersey has passed the famous “Palisades” (or at least a sign for the Palisades Parkway ;) They’re a line of 300-foot-high gray basalt cliffs [...]
Dan McCaw is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in Torrance, California, alongside his two accomplished artist sons, John and Danny. Together, they share a studio environment that fosters exploration, dialogue, and a continual [...]
