Light coming through trees results in the spotted light we know as dappled light. The painting below is by Ivan Shishkin. The circular spots...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone. Above, from a recent school visit. Thanks to DaniDraws.com for mentioning me in today's post ...

When light rays angle down toward the surface of still water, some of the rays bounce off the surface (reflection) and some travel down into...

If you want to draw portraits of great apes, you have to approach them in the proper way. You can’t just march up to a great ape enclosure a...

No urban painter is properly equipped without traffic cones. Before you begin painting a street scene, place two cones in the street in fron...

What do the faces on cars tell us about the evolution of our zeitgeist?

I did this quick 3.5 x 5 inch watercolor a few days ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What interested me was the area where the trees are in ...

Yesterday at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, 110 fourth-graders from three different schools attended my PowerPoint and Mag...

We've been playing an occasional group sketch game called " Art By Committee, " where I share an an actual excerpt taken out o...

A tree presents a complex silhouette against the sky, but the silhouette is almost never completely solid. A few “skyholes” puncture the sha...