Debra Keirce has been awarded Best in Show at the Small Works National Competition at…
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Rethinking Focus, Mastery, and Innovation from the Ground Up In the world of creative and technical pursuits, innovation often conjures…
Image shown: Turner’s Dolbadarn Castle (DETAIL), based on studies from his 1798–99 Welsh tour, was developed in the studio and…
Thoughts on evaluating the many art “rules” and traditions that continue to thrive in the studio and classroom. (Image: Albert…
Image shown: Jan Vermeer, “The Art of Painting” (DETAIL) c.1666, oil on canvas The Simple Tools That Made Better Practice…
Artists inherit a landscape dense with “rules.” We are routinely advised to work from dark to light, to observe fat…
Art in the Service of Change: Keith Haring’s Legacy Image shown: Detail of Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA (1989)…
Bradbury and the Soft Machinery of Cultural Control Over the past year, I found myself in quite a few conversations…
Attentiveness, Restraint, and the Visual Structure of Care in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting (Image shown: Pieter de Hooch, The Bedroom, c.1658…
The term crutch gets tossed around in visual art discussions with remarkable frequency—often used to dismiss a technique, tool, or strategy as…
RYB and the Question of Pedagogical Validity It’s been a while since I’ve publicly addressed the utility of the RYB…