I. The Fear It is difficult for me to believe that I am coming up…
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A great question came up on Instagram yesterday about some of the potential issues with intermixing graphite and white pastel…
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…
How material diversity grew from the movement of pigments and the cultures of art they influenced. Color, in its earliest…
During our late November Artist Roundtable, we discussed a comment an artist had made on social media, stating that, in…
As we close out the year and look toward the work ahead, I wanted to offer something useful for anyone…
Dust seems like a minor annoyance until you see it wreck a dark glaze or throw sparkles into a perfect…
For as long as artists have worked with brushes, pigments, and varnish, they have also experimented with ways to correct,…
In recent weeks, I’ve seen a surge of ads for a product called the Everpen, accompanied by some bold claims: an unbreakable,…
A brush’s quality isn’t proven by the first stroke—it’s revealed by the thousandth. Painters talk about brushes all the time—usually…