Adrienne Stein on Painting Composition
How do you create a complex painting composition? Stein explains in this article: “It takes risk to turn a good painting into a great painting.”
Allez! Collaborative Figurative Art
See what happens when two figurative artists — Nanci France-Vaz and Dorian Vallejo — share the same canvas in an artistic “duel.”
Painting Inspiration: Solving the Puzzle
A winner of the Best Oil category in the bi-monthly PleinAir Salon shares how she creates patterns, identifies shapes, and “solves the puzzle” of her portrait paintings.
Painting and the Search for Excellence
Why it’s important for an artist to be a perpetual student, and 11 ways to do so.
Acrylic Portraits: Painting My Daughter Temma
Contemporary artist Tim Lowly shares how the Korean Minjung art movement and his special needs daughter, who is “profoundly other,” inspire his art.
My Painting Process: Swallows and Amazon
Narrative artist Lesley Thiel takes us through the symbolism and painting process of her realist work “Swallows and Amazon.”
