What's the difference between one painting that mesmerizes and captivates, and another that barely catches a glance? Some say it's skill or technique, but if that were all that mattered, why would so many technically [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]