Emil Carlsen, Still Life with Brass and Oysters A post on "Mystery" over at oil painter Stapleton Kearns' blog has me thi...

William Nicholson, Flowers and Glass Jug Sooner or later we must come to the end of striving to re-establish the image the ...

Pigeon Cove, 8x10, plein-air oil on linen, 2012 There are still several spaces left in my four-week plein-air painting class th...

Spring is here and the time is right for painting in the streets, or at least amid the faded glory of former East India Trading Company esta...

“Painterliness” generally refers to works with visible brushstrokes, “ the result of applying paint in a less than completely controlled ma...

Not every man has gentians in his house Bavarian Gentian in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. Bavarian gentians, big and dark, o...

Casper David Friedrich, The Monk By the Sea , 1810 "No situation in the world could be more sad and eerie than this—as the only spa...