Shane Wolf, founder of The Figure Society, is one of the rare masters of figurative art who upholds the tradition of working uniquely from life as long as it takes to create his works. Here, Shane shares his love for—and the importance of—working with live models for the integrity of figurative art.
See how Christina Grace Mastrangelo created "Introspection," the catalyst for the series "In Our Nature," in which she painted women to represent different states of being.
Émile Brunet (b. 1989, Montréal, Canada) employs the codes of Western Renaissance and Medieval art to present history and popular culture from common, yet...
Contemporary artist Sílvia Marieta takes us through the meaning and process for her figurative art, specifically "The Conflict." Be inspired by her philosophy, and see the step-by-step development of "The Conflict" here.
"I imagined him thinking of his home and childhood, as a reference to how we all can sometimes live in our memories. And how even though we are grown, we can sometimes feel like a child."
Vincent Giarrano finds that painting people around NYC is "endlessly inspiring." Discover some of his muses here.
Congratulations to Gaurav Ghimire, whose hyperrealism art has been recognized in the monthly PleinAir Salon. Here, he tells us about his winning work, "I Wonder."
As I began painting, I was filled with an array of thoughts and feelings while the blank area was also calling for attention, so I decided to include an essay as an integral part of the self-portrait.
Part of what makes painting a self-portrait interesting is that it has a mind of its own. You can sit down at the start and say (likely subconsciously), “I’m going to make a painting that portrays me in this way.” But often ...
"La Prairie de la Messe" depicts the Jesuit missionary Pierre-Jean De Smet celebrating the first public Mass in present-day Wyoming at the close of the final Rocky Mountain Rendezvous.