The Portrait Painter Who Erased Himself
Who was Joshua Johnson, one of America's first black professional artists?
No Single Portrait Could Hold This
One artist’s powerful portrayal of female friendship
The Question Every Portrait Asks
How 20th-century artists like Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse redefined portraiture once it stopped being about power and started being about presence.
The Alchemist of Montmartre: How Degas Reinvented Pastel
Discover how Edgar Degas combined pastel with gouache, monotype, and crushed pigment to push the medium beyond its limits — and what artists can learn from it.
The Storied Past of a Surprisingly Modern Medium
What you need to know about gouache
Proportion Is a Puzzle. Here’s How to Crack It.
Measuring tricks that change everything
Meet the Painter Couple Asking the Biggest Questions in Art Right Now
The work of Richard Thomas Scott and Jordan Nobuko Baker spans magical realism, vanitas still life, and some of the most urgent questions in contemporary art.
What Most Portrait Painters Get Wrong
and How Lyn Diefenbach Gets It Right
The Painter Who Chose Joy
Why Renoir’s happiest paintings are also his greatest
Why Knowing Your Subject Changes Everything About a Portrait
Lenin Delsol demonstrates exactly how he does it — step by step, mark by mark.