John Gannam, watercolor and gouache on board,  13 x 11.5 in.   (33 x 29.2 cm.), illustration for Pacific Mills, 1945 John Gannam (Ame...

Design teacher Eugène Grasset published a portfolio called  Plants and Their Application to Ornament in 1896. In the book he chooses 24 c...

When I'm experimenting with a painting medium, I like to reduce the variables to the zen of just black and white. By ignoring color ...

The Regular, gouache, 5 x 8" Jim is a regular at the diner. He tells us that he has been taking painting classes. He had one art te...

Below the main floor of Grand Central Station is the lower level, sometimes known as the Dining Concourse or the Suburban Concourse. M...

Veronica Lawlor, Watercolor, gouache, and fountain pen, painted almost entirely with a Connoisseur Protege 9467 travel brush Besides be...

Because of their powerful fragrance, lilacs were planted next to outhouses in early America. Even when the outhouse has rotted away, you ca...

( Link to YouTube ) On Saturday, we joined a group of plein air painters and urban sketchers at the New York Botanical Garden for a day of ...

Gerard van Spaendonck The lilacs will be in full flower Saturday, May 4 at the New York Botanical Gardens, where it's Lilac Weekend....

Musician and activist Pete Seeger died in 2014, but if he had lived a little longer, he would have been 100 years old today. Besides he...