As the visually oriented, process-obsessed seekers that we artists are, kicking back and taking in a movie related to our favorite subject is, apart from actually being at the easel, up there with as good [...]

There’s a simple reason that this photo makes a good foundation for a painting: The natural curvature and dynamic angles of the rocky ledges give it an eye-catching composition out of the gate. The scene [...]

BY LAURIE BASHAM For so many years I had “Imposter Syndrome.” I doubted myself and my abilities and always felt like I was faking it. I felt like this when I was teaching middle school [...]

I’ve a confession: the title of this post is a bit deceptive. When it comes to color mixing, there’s actually no such thing as “mud.”  Don't believe me? Look at the colors that dominate the [...]

Landscape orientation tends to tempt one into stacking rectangles on top of each other. It can also lead us into the temptation of “stripes” – thin bands of horizontals that do nothing to keep the [...]

By their very nature as horizontal beasts, landscape paintings are prone to “stripey-ness.” They can become dominated by unbroken horizontal shapes stacked neatly one on top of the other. This can result in paintings that [...]

by Robert Moore After more than twenty years of doing art critiques I have found ten areas to be the most important. 1. Are the masses large, separate shapes, defined by their closely related values? [...]

On gray mornings, when a mist erases the definitions of things, the merely odd can seem monumental and the familiar strange.  Van Gogh’s ox cart lumbers out of this indeterminate between-space of mist and fog [...]

By Fine Art Today The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is currently showing “Giacomo Ceruti: A Compassionate Eye.” The exhibition features extraordinarily sympathetic realist portraits of men, women, and children experiencing poverty by 18th-century Italian artist [...]