Can Anyone Learn to Draw?
A practical case for why "I can't draw" is never true — with the core drawing principles and self-teaching resources you need to start improving today, no matter your age or experience.
The Alchemist of Montmartre: How Degas Reinvented Pastel
Discover how Edgar Degas combined pastel with gouache, monotype, and crushed pigment to push the medium beyond its limits — and what artists can learn from it.
Why This Landscape Painter Throws Half Her Work Away
And couldn’t be happier about it.
The Storied Past of a Surprisingly Modern Medium
What you need to know about gouache
The Song of Summer
By Christopher Volpe “In summer,” says poet William Carlos Williams, “the song sings itself.” If these paintings are any guide, to invite summer into your paintings, you have to let it be itself by putting [...]
How to Critique Your Own Work
10 qualities that are the most important
Can Creativity Make You a Better Person?
Researchers say yes -- and it can even prolong your life
Still Painting
The Painter Who Has Seen Everything — and Keeps Showing Up
Why Paint from Life?
It’s the quality of the artist’s involvement in the subject and the amount of mind, heart, and soul he or she gets into the painting – by any means necessary – that matters most.
The Painters Who Were Never Supposed to Be Painters
The Native American Artists History Forgot — Until Now