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Rather than rhetorical questions, this still life painting is intended to spark conversations among those who view it.

In 2020, at the height of the BLM movement, a woman named Saraa Kami contacted Oosterlee to say how much she admired her art, and also to ask why it never ...

Werntz's portraits of people in life’s last chapter also serve as portals into how they have lived and the emotions and experiences they carry.

When painting from life, our minds must be focused on the fundamental technicalities...What is in front of us, though, is so much more than that.

On figure painting > "The mind likes to play with matter, animals are informed without written language."  ~ Cesar Santos

Last week many of us gathered online for the opportunity to learn from 30 of today's top landscape painters during the 4th Annual Plein Air Live. Some were dedicated outdoor painters who would finish an impressionistic work on location, and others were keen to use the art of painting outside to create color studies that would later be used ...

"A drawing will never be exactly like the subject, and it doesn’t need to be. It is a drawing, after all, with feelings perhaps!" ~ Oliver Sin

One of the benefits of entering the PleinAir Salon is the it can put your drawings of people (such as these) in front of the world. Be inspired here.

"I wanted to demonstrate the contrasting textures in this Valentine-themed painting," said ...

Just hours before catching one of the last flights out before the lockdown, the artist put his brush down on the painting illustrated here.