10 qualities that are the most important

Matt Ryder on Painting Rocks and Flowers

Good artists imitate; great artists steal. This phrase is variously attributed to Steve Jobs (who misattributed it to Pablo Picasso), and to Lionel Trilling, Igor Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, and William Faulkner. (Oh, and the less well-known [...]

A look at the marine paintings and life of historic master Emil Carlsen Nordic Reflections: The Marine Paintings of Emil Carlsen By Valerie Ann Leeds Lyricism, quietude, subtlety — these are the defining qualities of [...]

“The longer I live, the more I have come to believe that everything in the universe is connected.” – Steven DaLuz   Steven DaLuz won PleinAir Magazine’s November salon award for best painting by an artist [...]

by Nancy Macdonald On site, I make a number of sketches and color studies, which I use as reference for larger paintings in my studio. I try to capture the harmony in the scene as [...]

Just three words, LOOKING, THINKING, and PAINTING can radically change your artistic approach, your career, even as your life. It sounds gimmicky but it happened that way for me. Years ago, I shared some developing [...]

It’s one of art’s most elusive of concepts - inspiration. Where does it come from? And is there anything we can do to make it come more often? One of the most important mindsets that [...]

He was the most fashionable portraitist in the most fashionable place in the Western world: Parisian high society during the Belle Epoch, or “Beautiful Period” of 1871–1880, a golden age of aristocratic prosperity and joie de [...]

Claude Monet, not that he was some sort of all-powerful art god or something (spoiler: he was), once diverted a branch of the Epte River. Though it sounds like something only heroes like Hercules can [...]