Have you ever sat spellbound while looking out over a glorious landscape, and just wished you could somehow share it? Well Padraig McCaul feels this way about western Ireland, and it certainly shows in his rich oil paintings.
Year: 2010
It sounds logical: find the sweet spot between making art that you love and making art that sells, and build your business around that overlap. But does it always work? Seemingly, no
Painting from life always brings with it a certain set of challenges, but perhaps the biggest challenge is finding a way to recreate all those vibrant, light-filled colors that saturate the air around us - while just using opaque oil paints.
Monday in Video Tutorials - Tomorrow, Caroline Jasper will be demonstrating how artists can use contrasting colors to heighten the intensity of a painting - even if those colors don’t really appear in your landscape or still life.
When I first started painting, the genre I was least interested in was portraiture. I was more interested in learning about floral, figurative, or landscape painting. After my daughter’s wedding, however, I began thinking about creating a portrait
Chrysti Hydeck calls herself a Creatologist - an artist who combines various forms of artistic techniques under one roof. Online, she is best known for her “Artography” series, while her collectors know her for her mixed media.
Karen Ramsay is an artist who enjoys capturing the “everyday ordinary” through her ink and watercolor plein air paintings. She unites paint with a waterproof fine tip marker in a process that she calls
There may finally be some light on the horizon for BoundlessGallery artists. . . in an email that went out from BoundlessGallery HQ last week, the company offered the following olive branch to its members
If design and composition isn't generally something that you think about while painting, it probably should be. A good design ensures that your viewers will stay interested in your artwork, even over a long period of time
Monday in Video Tutorials – Tomorrow, Mark Mehaffey will be covering 5 elements of design that any artist can be...
Hanging artwork can be a baffling process. . . but since it’s the first impression that people will have of your art, it’s very important to learn the right way to do it. Whether you’re preparing for a show in a coffee shop, hanging work in your studio, or
Color is what makes a painting stand out to me. Sometimes I’m drawn to bold color - color that vibrantly describes the elements in the composition. Other times I am fascinated by the muted palette of a quieter scene.