How do you choose your colors? Beyond accuracy, what is color's role in your paintings?

Plein air painters may well want to borrow a page or two from the Tonalist playbook.

A strong notan design can serve you well as a framework for building the rest of the design of any painting.

Great works of art don’t make us think; they return us to a place where thinking and feeling are the same.

Sometimes design is so subtle that it acts almost invisibly. Last time, we looked at Sorolla, where design was obvious. We looked at one of his plein air compositions not in terms of compositional formulas (e.g. [...]

Enduring works of art “tease us out of thought,” as the poet John Keats said. No matter how much we think we know about them, they’re never the same twice; every time we come to [...]

There's more to this phrase than you might think.