It must have come to him in a flash:  thoroughbred horseracing was The Perfect Subject for his new style and approach to painting. It fit his friends, the Impressionists’, new mission for art: to paint [...]

I’ve a confession: the title of this post is a bit deceptive. When it comes to color mixing, there’s actually no such thing as “mud.”  Don't believe me? Look at the colors that dominate the [...]

By Fine Art Today The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is currently showing “Giacomo Ceruti: A Compassionate Eye.” The exhibition features extraordinarily sympathetic realist portraits of men, women, and children experiencing poverty by 18th-century Italian artist [...]

Finding Your Way by Dina Brodsky “I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow … I learn by going where I have to go.” ~Theodore Roethke, The Waking Dina Brodsky, “I Wake to Sleep,” [...]

“Steal like an artist.”  That’s the title of a popular self-empowerment book for artists and a phrase on lots of peoples’ lips these days. It’s a variation on “Good artists borrow, great artists steal!” which [...]

THINK AGAIN The late Canadian landscapist Robert Genn suggested that, “rather than go with your first choice in a composition, go with your second choice.” Why? I think it’s partly because our first choice is often the [...]

“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual – to become clairvoyant,” wrote famous artist and teacher of the first years of the [...]

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