With 70 million acres of forested land disappearing each year, Carin Wagner is dedicating her life to painting the most endangered trees.
"My creative process is inherently about labor, and against the modern backdrop of instant, image-driven gratification, I have found the physical process involved in the painstaking, craft-driven rendering of a subject or a moment to be ever more important."
The art community is feeling a great loss, as we've learned about the recent passing of artist, author, teacher, and speaker Richard Schmid.
Christopher Benson shares an essay on danger of confusing the level of our craft with the quality of our art.
"Just like the girl in my painting 'The Color Collector,' creating art was for me a refuge, a place where I was with myself, away from my country."
The representational portrait painting, "Chelsey" by Alexey Steele, is this week's featured painting for Realism Today.
"By examining my own world and people closest to me on a daily basis, my paintings have begun to reflect the current season of my life."
Contemporary figurative artist Alan Feltus shares an essay on painting the nude female figure.
When a memorial dog portrait by James Thomas brought the dog's owners to tears, he saw how powerful his tributes could be. Since then, he ...
In her illustrative storytelling, Morgan Irons often maintains a mystery that holds viewers’ interest and invites them to ...