Artist Terri Ford’s Canyon Dusk, a 24” x 28” pastel (above), won first place overall in the December 2023 PleinAir Salon, judged by California oil painter Camille Przewodek. Ford is an accomplished pastel painter (IAPS [...]

It is a puzzlement: the larger your painting is, the more concentrated you feel you have to work. That’s because a patch of blue sky in a 40” x 36” landscape feels a lot emptier [...]

Ginevra de’ Benci is the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in North or South America. It’s a small portrait (it was once a larger one though), painted when Leonardo was still in his early twenties [...]

Lots of people who wish they could paint say things like, "I can't even draw a straight line." The irony is, in painting you don’t even have to – you just have to be willing [...]

Today, artist Pat Fiorello gives us an insider’s view of her thoughtful creative process. It’s a step-by-step guide to how one contemporary artist goes beyond “merely reporting and describing the details” to render a captivating [...]

By Art Namarilnam There must be as many ways to paint a landscape as artists to paint them. Here is one way (not THE way) that I use to paint a landscape with a limited [...]

Today we view some beautiful examples of “luminism” in American art. What to Know Luminism refers to a tendency in later nineteenth-century landscapes toward images of nature suffused with light suggesting a kind of Divine [...]

This watercolor figure painting demonstration is by Daniela Werneck. Daniela is a realistic watercolor painter, based in Houston, Texas, whose work combines the most traditional watercolor methods with a contemporary look. She was recently on the [...]

Today we look at paintings by oil painter and pastelist Wolf Kahn (1927–2020). What You Should Know Wolf Kahn began creating intensely colorful American landscapes in the 1950s, when abstraction was all anyone wanted to [...]