One day, long, long ago, I was pulling a print out of the etching press and one of my professors saw it. He took out a $20 bill and asked me to sell it to him. I was in shock, and kept that $20 in my wallet as a good luck charm for several years. . . read more
Mark Langan comes from a long line of artists, but it wasn’t until 2003, after 20+ years in the transportation industry that he officially took his talent seriously and decided to devote more time to becoming a professional artist himself. . . read more
Yevgenia Watts has studied art both in the Ukraine, where she was born and raised, and in the U.S., where she has lived since the age of 22. Her current work involves experimenting on Yupo paper. . . read more
Plein-air painting—or, painting outside in the open air with all the perils and dangers that entails—is a very odd, and perhaps silly thing to do.
Why not stay in your nice cozy studio with the central heating on, away from the vagaries of weather, biting insects, nosy people, gusts of. . . read more
In today’s video, Linda Baker takes us through the same steps she uses when evaluating her paintings for clarity and contrast. In this particular case, she has decided that the pine cones in her painting are too similar, visually, to the background. . . read more