"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn [...]

Finding Your Work Means Finding Yourself

Hint: There's a time and a place...

In his biography of his father, American landscape painter George Inness, Jr. recounts the following anecdote concerning a demo his father performed for a student who'd come to call: Inness "He (Inness) [...]

"All art worthy of the name is religious."

Learn technique - but don't sacrifice self-expression.

Comparing one of Turner's initial sketches to the final painting yields insight not only into how to "read" a painting but into how great artists think and work.

Other artists painted Spanish tavern scenes, but Velasquez, being the great artist he was, saw and painted deeper truths.

I kept hearing about the practice of consistent easel time and wondered if it would make a difference in my paintings...