It was a hazy day in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, an unremarkable street corner. Nothing special happened.  The picture is 5x8 inc...

If I had to give a prize for the most delightfully weird romance cover, it would have to go to "The Hungry Ones" from 1966. W...

Here's a sketch I did last night at a concert of the Bard College Orchestra. I was sitting about four rows back.  Since some of you h...

( Video Link ) Sean Andrew Murray, concept artist for Big Huge Games (38 Studios) , has been developing his own fantasy universe called Gat...

Portrait painters sometimes use the term "nose room" for the extra compositional space allotted for the direction that a face is ...

The 19th century German instructor Heinrich von Zügel offered his students a memorable tip to help them with color and light as they painted...

Along the shores of the Hudson River, the railroad line isolates muddy coves. That's where the bog people live. At high tide they...

Here’s a portrait of my son Frank that I painted from life when he was six years old. At that age, it was basically impossible to ge...

Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel "The Scream" sold last night at Sotheby's in New York for $120 million, setting a record for ...

In a  previous post , I mentioned that top lighting can lend a dramatic effect to a character by concealing his eyes. Since the eyes are the...