What do people mean by the “expressive landscape”? Usually, it’s landscape painting that prioritizes the qualities of the paint over paint’s ability to represent what the eye sees. It can also refer to landscape painting [...]
Sanford Robinson Gifford’s panoramic Maine landscape above partakes of the Hudson River tendency to render the American landscape in majesty and grandeur. But Gifford liked to play around with scale, and it appears, upon close [...]
George Inness is still considered one of the best landscape painters America has produced. A lot that’s because he believed the role of the artist is to “go big or go home,” which in his [...]
“To make art is to take a Grand Tour of your soul, a journey to the emotions we feel when in the presence of our inner landscape.” – Klaus Ottmann How would you define “finding [...]
The challenge is that they’re in constant motion. Learn how to choose the right moment for painting clouds en plein air from artist Kim Casebeer (featured in the “Dramatic Light” video workshop on how to [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice to be told your ceremonial boat was waiting for you on the canal landing just outside your palace? That pleasure belonged to the doge, the ruler of the Venetian republic, on [...]
What Makes This Painting Great? An occasional series all about analyzing what makes paintings beautiful, iconic, memorable, or effective. Painters, beginners and masters alike, make leaps and bounds by studying creative triumphs of the art. [...]
D. Eleinne Basa believes in the importance of artistic interpretation of the subject. "One important difference, in my opinion, between an artist and a painter is that an artist will take a subject, often overlooked, [...]
Well-handled color has emotional impact. In Karen Margulis’s pastel painting “Frozen in Time), above, the artist takes a composition composed of predominantly cool-hues (a wintry sky and snowy foreground) and shoots it through with a [...]
Award-winning artist T. Allen Lawson has revealed his selections for the winners in the March 2024 PleinAir Salon. First place will receive a cash prize, plus all winners will be entered into the judging for the annual cash [...]
