It’s not uncommon today to find critique practices that proceed as though evaluation can meaningfully…
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Why “Medium” Is So Often Confusing Few terms in painting are used with greater broad-stroke ambiguity than “medium”. In common…
Notes from the 2025 Artist Roundtable Zoom Sessions In 2025, a series of artist roundtable discussions brought together practitioners from…
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,…