Teresa Oaxaca shares why she finds working with charcoal "refreshing" when it comes to drawing portraits.
View portraits and figures by realist painter Jesús Emmanuel Villarreal, and discover how you can learn directly from him from the comfort of your home this week during the world's largest online training event.
To the magical realist, a butterfly may no longer simply be a butterfly, but a technical means by which to convey a story or image beyond words, understood subconsciously where symbols...
Jamie Coreth tells us how being raised by an animal sculptor has taught him certain valuable lessons about the discipline of creating art.
“Rarely are the ethereal pictures by Odd Nerdrum easy to look at, yet they always draw us in, forcing us to marvel at the artist’s deft draftsmanship and lush brushwork, even as we try to work out exactly what’s happening here..."
When Dutch artist Francien Krieg was intrigued especially by a woman's white hair, she found a way to emphasize it in a 40 x 47-inch portrait painting, using perspective to make the head "monumental." Here's how.
“If you paint a human figure in the right way, you can paint anything,” says Russian master painter Nikolai Blokhin.
"I believe art has the power to move people and that the most effective, beautiful, and truthful way to do that is through realism."
Contemporary realist painter O’Neil Scott was born in Jamaica and currently works in Pennsylvania. He took the time to share with us his path to oil painting, his challenges and techniques, and how he uses art to “leave the world a little better place.”
Congratulations to William A. Schneider, whose portrait painting "Sweet Sixteen" recently won recognition during the 2020 Art of the Heartland National Exhibition.