Cats Juggling Balls by Utagawa Kuniyoshi   (1797-1861) According to the Ōta Memorial Museum of Art, "Kuniyoshi was an ukiyo-e artist w...

Is there a difference between botanical art and plein-air painting?  While both may result in attractive images of plants, the botanical art...

The Mackays of Scotland have a clan badge that says "Manu Forti," which means "with a strong hand." When I was just 13 y...

Susan asks: "Do you recommend black umbrellas for plein-air artists?" No, I really don't. Here's why I don't think a b...

No, it's not AI art—not digital either. I painted it for fun in acrylic during lunch break while I was a 22-year-old working as a backgr...

Sign painters and show-card artists in the golden age of penmanship had a variety of styles of applying shadows to make letters stand out. A...

Learning to paint requires developing two different sets of neural pathways. One is the cognitive / perceptual skill of strategic observati...

The Rhinecliff Hotel overlooks the Hudson River alongside the railroad tracks. For many years it was the scene of lively Irish music session...

Louis II was a king of Hungary whose life was framed with drama. At his premature birth he was kept alive by court doctors who killed animal...

Head of a Woman (1893) by Julian Fałat (Polish:1853-1929), watercolor on paper, National Museum, Warsaw Julian Falat studied in Kraków and ...