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"I have become profoundly aware of the importance of understanding myself and my art in relation to God."

Finding organization in the chaos of a constantly changing, churned, and windswept sea feels like a titanic challenge...

Artists, art aficionados, and art collectors could greatly benefit from an understanding of the technical aspects of painting—what I call ...

Essentially recreations of famous paintings, sculptures, and historical events that are undertaken by costumed individuals, tableaux vivants (the French term for “living pictures”) began as an amusement among Europe’s upper classes. Similarly sophisticated Americans followed suit.

What now? Where do we go from here? If there aren’t any rules in art, how do we know where to start?

Far from "effortless," Ann Pember walks us through her thought process and the decisions she makes before she even picks up the brush.

Given the omnipresence of photography, digital manipulation, and AI in our visual culture, this artist understands that many viewers believe any realistic image has been ...

See how contemporary realism artist Christina Grace Mastrangelo created the vanitas (a genre of painting symbolizing the transience of life) in this step-by-step demonstration.

Watercolor painting advice from Michael Holter (a preview of the video workshop "7 Steps to Watercolor Portraits")

This artist's process involves no drawings or studies, only rapid brushwork executed on site that relies upon her firm understanding of perspective, value, and proportion to complete the large works, sometimes in only one session.