Gifts for Artists You’ll Want for Yourself
Art Supplies that Rock
Want to Sell Your Art? Give it Away.
Generosity of spirit tends to attract good things into your life.
Sequencing: a Creative Exercise
Working Fast is Good
A City Side Walk
A Brief History of the Cityscape in Painting, Part 2
Story Time
And: ART HISTORY SELFIES!
Diebenkorn’s 10 Rules for Artists
Plus: Art History Tattoos!
All the Talent and None of the Fame
The troubled genius who vanished in Rembrandt's shadow.
Corot’s Palette Revealed!
We now know exactly what pigments he used to create his gauzy, silvery tone poems.
Hang It All!
These 3 keys make hanging your show a breeze
Mysterious and Sublime
A Close Look at a Famous Work by Thomas Cole. According to notions of the sublime, the human element is dwarfed to the point of being overwhelmed by Nature, which is seen as a vast world of violent, churning forces coldly indifferent to any human suffering Nature might cause. For Cole, there were few things more sublime than Nature embodying God's wrath, as he painted in his dramatic Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden of 1828.