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Painting a Manicured Landscape – Golf Courses
Yes, golf courses are heavily manipulated landscapes, but they also are catnip for artists. “They seem to have unique features,” points out painter R....
Painting 5”-x-7” Oils on Paper
New York painter Amy DiGi has some reasons for painting in oil on 5”-x-7” sheets of paper. And they all make sense.
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Anatomy of an Award Winner: Shelby Keefe
Shelby Keefe stalked this scene, and it paid off. But the pressure was on....
EnPleinAir TEXAS is relatively new on the plein air circuit, but...
Painting Into the Sun, With Atmosphere
Edwin C. Bertolet has painted this area countless times. How did he freshen up a familiar scene at the baylands in the San Francisco...
Parting Shot: Painting Into the Sun, Part II
Brian Keeler knew what he wanted to paint when he set out with his easel one day this summer in Acadia National Park in...
What a Watercolorist Who Wants to Paint Underwater Does
Bonnie Richardson knew she couldn’t paint with watercolors underwater when she was snorkeling or scuba diving, but she dearly wanted to. Oils were not...
Anatomy of an Award Winner: John P. Lasater IV
What made John Lasater’s piece work? The artist and the juror tell all.
Lead Image: “Blacksmith Yard,” by John P. Lasater IV, 2015, oil,...
Spotlight on PACE Faculty: Dave Santillanes
You can take the artist out of the great outdoors, but you can’t take the plein air approach out of the painter. Case in...
Selling Everything, Painting Everywhere
Who hasn’t, at one time or another, fantasized about selling everything they own and hitting the road, traveling and painting? Patrick Saunders is doing...
Another Approach to Fall Color
Yes, the foliage at this time of year is beautiful. Jeremy Sams shows that there is more than one way to depict it.
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Anatomy of an Award Winner: Suzie Greer Baker’s “Travelall”
In this occasional feature, we examine a painting that won an award in competition and explore its genesis and attributes. This week, we look...
Gouache on Black Paper
Jan Poynter is not afraid of the dark, and she’s not afraid of phthalos. Here’s what that means for her artwork.
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Encaustic en Plein Air — It Can Be Done
“Plein air” and “encaustics” are generally not found in the same sentence ... unless Michael Westcott is talking.
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Watercolor on Toned Paper
Many watercolorists love the medium because the white of the paper helps illuminate the colors in the pigment. But if you are working outside,...
What the Rocks Tell Us: Thank You
In the last of this series of articles, Utah artist J. Brad Holt talks about what artists are seeing as they look at the...
Artist as Collector: Scott Gellatly
For Scott Gellatly, collecting art is about personal connections. Which three paintings did he pull from his burgeoning collection?
“I think that as a collector,...
Technology Triumphs in Preliminary Step
Rusty Jones is not a raging iconoclast. But he readily abandoned a traditional method of preparation for a painting when his iPhone offered an...
Using Architectural Elements for Contrast
San Diego artist Danny Griego finds that incorporating “urban line” in his paintings makes them much stronger — and mimics the way many of...
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