If we listen, as the winter wanes, can we hear within the distant strains of far-off summer’s music a piping and a dancing, such as artists and sculptors have celebrated in many a work of [...]

It’s natural to assume that the subject of your painting (what it’s a painting of) is what affects your audience and gets feeling across. For example, you might expect a vase full of flowers to inspire [...]

Leonardo da Vinci is said to have maintained that “painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt rather than seen."  Indeed, painting and poetry often seem [...]

By Kelly Kane “Concerning my approach to my subject, it is not simply the rendition of objects, trees, rocks, flowers, or still life,” says Darryl Glenn Steele. “Instead, my concern is painting the moment — the [...]

We all could use a little more awe in our lives, and art is the perfect place to start. Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast or profound that leads [...]

When Kathryn Stats first started painting, she viewed painting as a fun hobby. That hobby quickly turned into a passion, not just for painting but for capturing light – as beautifully as possible. She started [...]

Cityscapes can range from decorative to abstract, and from visceral to hyper-realistic. Here we take a near-random sampling of the genre through time, beginning with the golden age of Japanese color woodblock prints. These works [...]

So often the reality of our paintings falls short of our ability to envision them - we can “see” the most beautiful paintings in our imagination, but in reality, that beauty eludes us. It’s often [...]

Vincent Van Gogh’s still life paintings rivet the viewer with the same expressive immediacy and presence as do his vividly intoxicating landscapes and portraits. This is true of even the humblest of his motifs, including [...]

By GUEST CONTRIBUTOR Julie Gilbert Pollard I’m always looking to loosen-up my painting technique - and because splatter is so random-looking it lends itself nicely to that goal. Sometimes, however, it is TOO random and [...]