Not long ago we compared equally innovative still life flower painters Eduard Manet and Henri Fantin-Latour: two 19th century French artists painting at close to the same time –  1882 - 1885 – with very [...]

Blazing foliage and sun-dappled dirt roads lined with red-gold oaks maples – wonderful fall motifs. But the ingenious work of artist Daniel Gerhartz proves you can create paintings that say “autumn” without having to depict [...]

Master watercolor realist Ian McEwan has been awarded first place in the PleinAir Salon’s monthly competition for his painting, “Morning Calm.” McEwan is president of the watercolor division of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters. [...]

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill Keep going.  Effort itself – even if unrewarded, seemingly unsuccessful and in vain – is better than giving up. You have to give up hope and [...]

Look too long at Cesar Santos’ newest paintings and you risk feeling something akin to those myths and fairytales where someone who’s enjoying a meal is told they’ve been unknowingly eating human flesh.  Milan’s gallery [...]

“Poetry is a man and a woman and the distance between them.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti Edward Hopper’s figures have no one talk to. They’re entirely self-absorbed, isolated from each other even when together, and most [...]

The human portrait remains one of the most challenging and rewarding of artistic pursuits. Getting an accurate image down is hard enough, but then there's getting the LIFE into it. To those not privy to [...]

Painting from life, whether it’s a portrait, the figure, or a plein air landscape, offers certain advantages over working from photos. However, using photo references makes it a lot easier to “make things look right.” [...]

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler Visual art has a long history (to say the least) of practice, tradition, and training. And yet, art remains forever fresh [...]

Warsaw’s Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art is currently exhibiting “Odd Nerdrum, Painter of the North,” a dramatic show of large figurative works by the renowned artist.  Heavily influenced by classical painters like Rembrandt and [...]