Acrylic artist Brenda Hozjan studied to become a third-degree black belt in Karate. She trained in Canada and finished the final part of her San Dan grading (third degree black belt) in Kyoto, Japan. A lot of [...]

By Contributing Writer Rick Delanty Rick Delanty will be demonstrating his technique for achieving a lush and loose look to his acrylic paintings at the inaugural Acrylic Live online event. Three days of professional-level instruction [...]

An important but largely overlooked figure in the history of painting is Eugène Carrière. He  was a Parisian oil painter and print-engraver whose work resonates with tonalistic poetry in abundance. No less a talent than [...]

I hiked a ways from the parking site to find this lake and beautiful setting close to the port town of Mallaig. When Stephen Quiller conducts a workshop out of the country, he often extends his stay [...]

Plein Air watercolorist Keiko Tanabe ("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 in [...]

There’s a bank of trees in my neighbor’s yard, across the street from our house, that often stops and make me listen. This straight stand of pine trees (I’m told they’re called wind breaks, at [...]

You’ve heard it before: Good artists imitate; great artists steal. Well, guess what? It’s still true. And we still don’t know who actually said it. The phrase has been attributed to Steve Jobs (who misattributed it to [...]

Paul Kratter’s landscapes radiate a warm affection for the ground of their making, which is generally the American west, and often the coastal scenes, hillsides, rivers, streams and forests of California, where he makes his [...]