Monday Morning Art School: why grisaille?
Your painting should be a carefully judged pas de deux between reality and your own vision. That’s best worked out before you start adding color variables.
The value of system
Systematic paint gets the mechanics out of the way and makes room for true creativity to emerge. It also helps when time and pressure threaten to derail you.
What is art?
Beauty is something both traditional art and craft do magnificently. It’s something a banana taped to the wall (and much other modern art) fail at. To divorce aesthetics from art is as foolish as trying to draw a line between art and craft.
Monday Morning Art School: ten great fog paintings
I thought about giving you some didactic rules for painting fog, and then thought again: why not let the masters show you themselves? The hard part was winnowing it down to ten.
Top ten myths about art
A compendium of all the weird and wrong stuff I’ve heard over the years about the life of the working artist.