Best Books for Artists, Part Two
This is PART 2 of our roundup of the best and most inspiring books for artists. You can read PART 1 here. We’re open to hearing your picks, so if we missed your faves please [...]
How Not to ‘Win’ Your Painting
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut liked to tell a story about something someone said to him as a fifteen-year-old kid that eventually enabled him to become the imaginative writer he became. He was on an archeological dig [...]
A DEEP CONNECTION TO NATURE
Patrick Faile grew up in rural South Carolina where he developed a deep connection to nature and wildlife. He discovered art at a young age and thrived in his only formal art education through the [...]
Finding Common Ground
Clyde Aspevig teaches his oil painting approach and technique in his video, ASPEVIG. “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler Life’s complex. Nothing is as simple as we’d like, and that [...]
Best Books for Artists, Part One
This series started as "The 5 Most Inspiring" books for artists, but the list has gone beyond that number now. This is the first in the ongoing series. #1. The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri [...]
Loosen Up!
How does he do it? Well, sometimes he trades a brush for a squeegee. Learn how from his instructional video, Painting with Intuition. “Loose as ashes,” a friend of mine, Don Oulette used to say. [...]
A Portrait Technique that Checks All the Boxes
By Contributing Writer Rob Silverman Convincing likeness, check! Good composition, check! You need not be an award-winning artist, check! We’ve all seen demos by accomplished portrait artists that begin with a perfect drawing, followed by [...]
American Pastoral
When America’s first great landscape painter, Thomas Cole, began painting the trees, rivers and mountains of the northeastern U.S. in the 1830s, he was aiming for a union of the sublime and the beautiful (or [...]
Spontaneity is Key: Acrylic Live, Day 3
On the final day, we learned from none other than Anne Blair Brown, Patricia Guzman, Rick J. Delanty, Joe Gyurcsak, Kevin Macpherson, and more.
“I’m Learning So Much!” Acrylic Live, Day 2 Highlights
Welcome back to your Acrylic Live highlights! On Day 2 this year, we saw more full-length watercolor painting demonstrations with Colette Pitcher, Charlie Easton, Chantel Barber, Carla Bosch, Aimee Erickson, and more, including sessions with our sponsors and more giveaways.