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As many of you know, every week I try to publish an article on EmptyEasel that's been written by someone other than myself - they range from opinion articles to full tutorials, and they're usually submitted by readers just like ...

I don’t write about politics much here on EmptyEasel—and for good reason, this is an art website after all—but I’ve started to see an interesting similarity between the changing art world and the mainstream media’s political coverage of the 2008 ...

Do you watermark your artwork online? You know, by adding some sort of copyright statement right over the top of your images? From my perspective, it’s not really necessary - and it’s even a little off-putting. Here's why. . . ...

Years after his death, Bob Ross is still teaching artists how to paint in his "Joy of Painting" series as well as many other art books and videos - and even though I don't agree with how he taught painting, ...

The following article was written by Bernard Victor and contains 7 methods for painting abstractly. Each method was taken from his experiences in an abstract painting class held at Morley College.

This week's poll question was: how many new year's resolutions did you make for 2008? There haven't been many responses so far, soI guess that just means I should keep these questions a little more art-related from here on out.

It’s good to look back, isn't it? To take stock of where you’ve been and how you’ve changed? Well, with 2007 ending tonight, I thought I’d share some things I learned during the past year.

Edward Hopper became an influential American realist painter of the 20th century. Early on, however, Edward Hopper was not so celebrated—he first made his living as a commercial artist and illustrator, and it wasn't until the late 1920's (well into ...

Many artists have been discouraged from pursuing art at some point in their lives. No matter how talented and enthusiastic a young artist is, there almost always seems to be someone, often an art teacher, counselor, or parent, who strongly ...

Daily painting - have you googled that lately? I just got around 120,000 results for "daily painting." If you don't know, daily painting refers to the practice of "a painting a day" originally started by Duane Keiser in 2004.

What was Romanticism? Well, although the name may sound a bit lovey-dovey, as an art (and literary) movement Romanticism really had nothing to do with love or romance. It DID have everything to do with emotion, however.