By Jill Stefani Wagner https://www.jillwagnerart.com  I have a confession to make. For a good part of my life, I was often terrified of new challenges and the possibility of failure. Whether in my advertising career [...]

Don’t apologize for your work. Because actually, failure is good for you – and you know it!  Obviously critiques of your work are, by nature, uncomfortable. You look at everybody else’s paintings, you feel that [...]

The brilliant Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi worked over 20 years on a series celebrating the theme of a bird in flight. As we recently noted in a previous piece on wildness in art, he never sculpted [...]

This painting, with its extraordinary history, played a pivotal role in the 21st century renewal of interest in classical realism. If you’ve ever visited the website of the Art Renewal Center (ARC) , a non-profit [...]

"I can't even draw a straight line." If I’ve heard that once, I’ve heard it 1,000 times. The proper answer, of course, is “You don’t have to!” For that matter, plenty of people who become [...]

By Jeremy Caniglia jeremycaniglia.com Mimesis — the copying of a masterwork — has been a key part of painters’ training since classical antiquity. As musicians must learn basic instrumental techniques before developing their own styles, [...]

Once you master some of the technical basics of plein air painting, you might start to wonder,  how you give your work more life? One place to start is with feeling – and getting it [...]

The brilliant Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi worked over 20 years on a series celebrating the theme of a bird in flight. Yet he never sculpted the bird; he concentrated on the animal’s movement, rather than its [...]

“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.” -Robert Henri   Can you combine rule-breaking wildness with a disciplined and authentic expression of the search for meaning?  A chorus of frustrated painters’ [...]

One look at the paintings of Martin Geiger (b. 1997) and it’s evident where his artistic education took place: the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he earned a certificate after four [...]