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Using Complementary Colors

James Gurney explores opposite color pairs

What Brain Science Teaches Us About Painting-PART 2

James Gurney shares how new insights in visual perception and neuroscience can help us as artists

HOW TO MAKE GRADIENTS

James Gurney demonstrates how to get your colors to change gradually throughout your picture

Expressions of Beauty

Rimi Yang paints effortless scenes that allow the viewer to have a conversation with the art

LET ME SAY IT AGAIN

Harley Brown's fascinating things no one else will tell you

PURE NEED

Harley Brown's fascinating things no one else will tell you

MONUMENTAL

The landscape in and around Taos, New Mexico, is central to Jivan Lee's latest paintings.

EDGE of the EARTH

Salt marshes and the wildlife that inhabit them have inspired painters for centuries.

Magical Moments

Matthew Sievers' paintings of rural landscapes and cities are dynamic expressions of light, color and atmosphere.

Finding Ourselves in Art

Harley Brown's fascinating things no one else will tell you

The Start, the Finish and Everything In-between

Harley Brown’s fascinating things no one else will tell you

ART ETERNAL

Harley Brown’s fascinating things no one else will tell you

GARDEN Delights

During the Golden Age in the Netherlands, tulip bulbs fetched extraordinary prices in a market bubble called “tulipmania.”

Back to Basics with Black and White

James Gurney shares basic painting exercises and applies them to field demonstrations in black and white gouache

FOREVER Wild

The Southeastern Wildlife Exposition has an enduring legacy in the world of wildlife art and conservation

What Brain Science Teaches Us About Painting-PART 1

James Gurney shares how new insights in visual perception and neuroscience can help us as artists

Experimenting with Oil Techniques

James Gurney uses black and white oil paints to demonstrate some unusual techniques

NATURAL SELECTIONS

The Pulitzer Prize winning Kiowa novelist M. Scott Momaday wrote, “I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.”

Hidden Beauty

In describing the work of José López Vergara, Arcadia Contemporary gallery observes, “Although his realist technique requires a strict methodology and rational thinking, his compositions rely on subconscious impulses and demand an abstract expression.”

Fantasy World

In a show of approximately 22 fresh oil and watercolor paintings, hosted at Stone Sparrow in New York, artist Victor Grasso illustrates his new-found playfulness and embraces his inner child

Gusan Lyon A Contemporary Master of American Art

The award-winning portrait and figure painter Susan Lyon is best known for her beautiful edges and inviting cultural renditions of the human form, capturing life from around the globe

Running the Gamut

The National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society features another exciting presentation of small oil and acrylic works in a variety of subject matter

The Wilds of an Inner Life

In her latest show with Chicago-based 33 Contemporary Gallery, figurative painter Ellen Starr Lyon blends still life and portraiture to evoke the quiet yet powerful moments in a woman’s everyday life

The Gift of Time

For the past two years, a selection of Ayana Ross’ work has been touring the country in an exhibition of works by the 10 finalists of the 2021 Bennett Prize, an award granted every two years to the most promising woman artist working in contemporary realism today

A Spring Awakening

The California Art Club's Excellence in Traditional Fine Art Competition challenges artists to create works inspired by the theme of transformation

In the Shadows

Beginning May 1, RJD Gallery will present Between the Shadows, a new solo exhibition for Erin Ruffino,  whose graphite-based mixed media works are rooted in reality, but also have magical and surreal properties that make viewers question the figures and settings

Magnetic Places

Geoffrey Johnson says he's somewhat lost in the creative process as of late

AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SILENCE

Kehinde Wiley excavates unsung martyrs in the struggle against oppression in the U.S. premiere of his latest work at the de Young Museum

Leading Ladies

The American Women Artists host their annual, all-female exhibition featuring sculpture and paintings in a variety of subject matter

Understated Beauty

After a four-year hiatus, the American Tonalisty Society returns to New York's Salmagundi Club with their second biennial exhibition and sale, Shades of Gray II