Landscape Artists Boycott Trees!
"A tree never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings, nor in frivolous waste of energy."
How Much of Success is Just Showing Up?
I kept hearing about the practice of consistent easel time and wondered if it would make a difference in my paintings...
Does Your Art Have ‘Presence’?
You sense it from across the room. It only intensifies and becomes more mysterious the closer you get....
Who Put the Hex on Color?
If you ask Google who invented the hexadecimal system, you get a pretty unlikely answer - but it's the one that gets repeated by every single other website pretending to know.
‘What Life Should Be About’
The late Wolf Kahn made some of America's most striking paintings combining landscape and colorfield approaches.
It’s Tax Time: What Artists Can Potentially Deduct
It's tax time - and there are art-related expenses you may be able to deduct!
Käthe Kollwitz Celebrated with New Book and Exhibition
Kollwitz’s work documents moving and intense moments in ordinary lives stricken by war, poverty, sorrow, loss, and premature death, as well the stubborn resilience of bravery, love, and the struggle for peace that can overcome them.
How to Give and Get Constructive Criticism
A major difference between constructive and destructive criticism is how it’s delivered.
Painting for Peace
Artists in Ukraine have not only continued to work but have doubled down on their efforts to stay creative and demonstrate strength by producing art and posting it online, donating the proceeds.
Soulful Abstraction
Like many a plein air or studio landscape painter, Rebecca Crowell’s paintings arise from nature, or more specifically, from her emotional responses to the natural forms, colors, and atmospheres she connects with wherever she goes.