If you sketch often and don’t feel too precious about the outcome, you can allow yourself to stop at whatever moment you like the drawing best, no matter the level of completion. BY AGNES GROCHULSKA [...]

Like many of the Impressionists, Claude Monet loved to paint along the Normandy Coast. Monet produced more than 90 paintings of Étretat, one of the coast’s fishing village/resort towns. Now scattered among private and public collections around [...]

Why are you painting?  Correct answer: Why not?! We tend to focus on technical stuff – draftsmanship, composition, color, values but not the human stuff – emotions, moods, meaning, energy, joy. But painting is all that [...]

A three-time cancer survivor, artist Suzi Long’s motto is Only those who risk going too far know how far it is possible to go. “You could say I went rogue when I moved into the [...]

Among many other accomplishments, Canadian artist Claude Cormier made “paintings” with stuffed animals. From across the room, Cormier’s massive work Stuffed Animals, installed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, reads like a colorful abstraction. [...]

Realist painter David Leffel’s work has been popular for decades, and he’s been teaching students his technique for just as long. Using an “all-in-one-go” style of direct painting called “alla prima,” Leffel combined the look [...]

It is recognized as one of the greatest American paintings ever made. The painting is by Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916) and it is known as The Gross Clinic (or Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross, as [...]

Q – When is an apple not an apple? A – When it’s painted with the intention of turning something ordinary into something extraordinary. We love paintings that surprise us a little, that catch our [...]

When I was an art director in the advertising field, panic deadlines seemed to squeeze out the best creative ideas from myself and my other advertising coworkers. The best ideas often got going sometime after [...]

Think plein air in Maine, and chances are you’ll think “Monhegan.” But before that rock-bound island community took the crown, another and more accessible locale was king – the southern Maine town of Ogunquit, which [...]