"My goal in this painting was to pull the subject's shadowed face out of the darkness, allowing only the light areas to contain detail while handling the dark of his clothing and chair with a gestural, even calligraphic brushwork."
This annual art competition offers $50,000 grand prize is the largest offered solely to ...
Adrienne Stein shares her process for painting the contemporary realism portrait "Wild Orchid," which consisted of a different approach ...
Watch: Susan Blackwood takes a painting that started en plein air and shares her concepts to make it an even more powerful work of art once in the studio.
The Art Renewal Center is now accepting entries to the 16th International ARC Salon Competition; the entry deadline is ...
A feature on Sherrie McGraw and the wonderful synthesis of figurative realism and abstract realism.
Is your work eligible? Learn about a new Call for Entries for contemporary portraiture.
Part studio, part museum, Michael Coleman has a collection of beloved and rare artifacts that inspire his paintings. Here, he takes on a private studio tour.
Oliver Sin, who has had two portraits featured on the cover of Time Magazine and who has worked for George Lucas, takes us through his portrait drawing process of a model named Juan.
Ann James Massey takes us through the process of creating a figurative painting that celebrates an annual Catholic tradition.