EmptyEasel Reviews: The Best New Artists, Products, Art Websites and more

How did the encouragement you received as a young artist (or lack of encouragement) change your life? Feel free to vote below if you haven't yet, or just click on "view results" to see what other artists have said.

Priscilla Treacy is an art teacher, painter, and printmaker from Virginia who has just recently started her own painting a day blog in March of 2008. Unlike some daily painters, Priscilla's work spans several mediums including pastel, gouache, drypoint etching, ...

Since this week was "Photoshop Week" on EE, I thought it'd be interesting to know how many artists used Photoshop versus other image-editing software. Feel free to vote if you haven't yet!

Some artists are totally against making reproductions of their paintings, while other artists just want to sell prints of their work over and over again (and don't care that much about selling the originals.) Where do you stand?

J.K. Chapman is an artist from the UK whose paintings are an interesting blend of pen and ink illustration, architectural design, and traditional painting techniques. His most recent works depict crowded city scenes, packed in with buildings and other structures ...

Today's article is a poem, yet I think it speaks directly to the choice that all artists must make. It was written by contemporary American poet and writer, Robert Bruce, and has been republished here with permission of the author. ...

Here's another easy poll question for all of you artists out there - how much time per day do you spend on art? Obviously there's no right or wrong answer since everyone has different circumstances, it's just always interesting to ...

Awtar Singh Virdi is a contemporary artist from India who paints amazing portraits - but he does so by using a technique called "anamorphosis." This means that if you only look at part of one of Awtar's paintings, it will ...

This week's poll is short and sweet - I thought it might be interesting to see how other artists expected to be using the internet a decade from now, so I wrote out the following question:

Up until a few months ago Lois Eakin was a graphic design manager - now she paints full-time, in a rich and beautifully realistic style that hearkens back to the 17th century Dutch masters of still life painting.

Today's poll: How much is the average artist willing to pay for their own portfolio website? When you factor in the cost of setup fees, domain fees, and who knows what else, some artist websites seem horrendously overpriced. Cast your ...