By Contributing Author, Bill Davisdson Learn how to quickly accomplish a glowing, magical atmosphere in paintings with this free step-by-step demo from Bill Davidson (“How to Paint Glowing Landscapes” on PaintTube.TV). Glow, Energy, Texture: How [...]
A silverpoint drawing is literally a drawing done in pure silver. Its primary tool is a pen or stylus with a soft metal point that leaves a metallic trace on a pigmented ground. It’s sort of [...]
“All art is quite useless,” wrote Oscar Wilde, by which I think he meant that art is one of the few things in a society in love with “productivity” and “being practical” that can still [...]
1. The Sublime and the Picturesque (Romanticism) Understanding the Hudson River School starts with recognizing the European influence. The artist and early environmentalist Thomas Cole (1801–1848) founded the influential 19th-century art movement known as the [...]
A Rose is a Rose is …. potentially so much more. Georgia O’Keefe was a master at observing the abstract forms in nature and translating them into fascinating combinations of modernist abstraction and natural forms [...]
Oil painter Julie Davis, AIS, AWA, OPA has a favorite quote from Winston Churchill that hints at her philosophy of painting: "Obviously, then, armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left [...]
Few artists in history have had such a wide-ranging impact on art and culture as Henri Matisse. What a bold, exuberant spirit of an artist! We’re fortunate that Matisse was also a thoughtful and prolific writer who often reflected [...]
By Fine Art Connoisseur There is a beauty in abandoned places: boarded houses dismantled by wind and rain, rusted millwheels, collapsing barns and sealed grain silos the color of dust. These are lonely places, sure, [...]
By Kelly Kane A growing body of evidence proves something the readers of PleinAir™ Magazine (and Inside Art) have long understood: Art makes us feel better. Whether we’re making it or simply looking at it, art can [...]
Who, with any feeling for the depths of humanity, can resist that bottomless gaze peering across the centuries from the self-portraits Rembrandt painted in old age? Great works of art, according to Susan Sontag, provide [...]
