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 [...]

Carrie Curran is a professional artist living in Scottsdale, Arizona. As a teacher, she runs her own art center and demonstrates her techniques at PACE (the annual >>Plein Air Convention & Expo). The next PACE [...]

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Harvard University is currently running a major exhibition of American watercolors, many rarely seen and by well-known and historically underrepresented artists. American Watercolors, 1880-1900: Into the Light stakes a claim for the medium as more [...]

Art opens a portal into a timeless place. Hours pass unnoticed and small (but no less real) private adventures befall us.  On an intimate, one-to-one scale, painting is full of challenge, excitement, discovery, and it [...]

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