The challenge is that they’re in constant motion. Learn how to choose the right moment for painting clouds en plein air from artist Kim Casebeer (featured in the “Dramatic Light” video workshop on how to [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to be told your ceremonial boat was waiting for you on the canal landing just outside your palace? That pleasure belonged to the doge, the ruler of the Venetian republic, on [...]

What Makes This Painting Great? An occasional series all about analyzing what makes paintings beautiful, iconic, memorable, or effective. Painters, beginners and masters alike, make leaps and bounds by studying creative triumphs of the art. [...]

D. Eleinne Basa believes in the importance of artistic interpretation of the subject.  "One important difference, in my opinion, between an artist and a painter is that an artist will take a subject, often overlooked, [...]

Well-handled color has emotional impact.  In Karen Margulis’s pastel painting “Frozen in Time), above, the artist takes a composition composed of predominantly cool-hues (a wintry sky and snowy foreground) and shoots it through with a [...]

Award-winning artist T. Allen Lawson has revealed his selections for the winners in the March 2024 PleinAir Salon. First place will receive a cash prize, plus all winners will be entered into the judging for the annual cash [...]

By Guest Contributor John Pototschnik “Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite [...]

Sanford Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American landscape painter and a leading member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists. A highly regarded pioneer of what’s now known as Luminism, [...]

See how a watercolor still life painting that includes leaves, crystal, and some unexpected challenges comes to fruition, step by step. BY MATTHEW BIRD One aspect of still life painting that I enjoy most is [...]

By Guest Contributor Barb Walker Do you ever wonder if the painting you are working on is heading in the direction you want it to? Is it ok? Does it need something?  At some point [...]