“To be free and yet not to lose touch with reality, that is the drama of that epic figure who is variously called inventor, artist, or poet.” - Fernand Leger Kitchen Wall, unknown Dutch artist, [...]

Chantel Barber is among the faculty who’ll be demoing their techniques at the inaugural Acrylic Live event happening online March 25-28, 2025. Join Chantel at Acrylic Live as she creates a dynamic portrait sketch by building [...]

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." - Rene Magritte One of art's important jobs is to remind us that not everything about our experience of the world is known or [...]

On atmosphere, expressive color, and composition alone, JMW Turner (1775-1851) rocks the house. But the next time you get to stand in front of a painting by the greatest landscape painter of the 19th century, [...]

For portrait paintings to be successful, you have to find a way to grab viewers’ attention. Victoria Herrera Brings Portraits to Life By Milène J. Fernández On a stormy weekend in 2024, I sat with Victoria [...]

Occasionally one stumbles onto an artist almost completely unknown outside their home country for no good reasons other than 1. The artist is a woman or 2. No one at the time understood their work. [...]

You KNOW it’s true and you don’t want to hear it again but I’M GOING TO SAY IT ANYWAY: The best way to learn how to paint is to paint. And that means to paint [...]

Western artists have freely celebrated the natural human form since the Renaissance, but seldom have they found as much vibrant beauty within it as French painter Pierre Bonnard.  With a career spanning the nineteenth and [...]

About six months ago, a guest on Antiques Roadshow was shocked to discover that two 19th-century watercolor paintings purchased by her great-grandmother could be worth six figures. The revelation occurred when the hit PBS show [...]

“After great pain, a formal feelin g comes.” - Emily Dickinson Pippa Hale-Lynch’s oil painting, “Grief: Self Portrait with Jam” (featured at the top of the page) has been awarded the Inside Art Award in [...]