The urge to create: lessons from prehistoric cave painters
Cave art tells us that prehistoric man thought about something beyond their material existence. Does our art have meaning that transcends our culture?
Monday Morning Art School: who’s painting—you or the camera?
The camera is an extraordinary tool, but it has no imagination. Stop treating photographs as masters and start treating them as servants.
The difference between illustration and narrative painting
A painting can be competent and still feel contrived. It can be imaginative but feel trite. It can tell a literal story or be allegorical. How can you tell where you’re headed?
Mining your slush pile for better painting ideas
Time has already done the editing in your painting slush pile. If it still interests you a year or five later, there’s something there worth exploring.
Monday Morning Art School: what’s the best painting medium?
There are sometimes practical concerns as to what paint kit you’ll pick up. Beyond that, the best medium is the one that gets you painting most often.