British illustrator Helen Green had always enjoyed the music of pop star David Bowie. Last year, when the singer turned 68, Green decided to do a special kind of portrait, one which certainly had a...
When we first learned to draw or paint, our teachers generally got us to practice with the materials first, before creating our so-called masterpieces. We would work on exercises or studies, similar...
In art, artistic vision can sometimes be influenced by technology. For example, until the latter part of the nineteenth century, artists didn't accurately depict how a horse galloped. Then, in the...
Why You Need to Catch this Moment Almost every medium, from fine-art to mass media, has a moment — that point in time when a form of expression not only affords artists (and others) the ability to...
In my upcoming State of the Art column, in the Dec. 2015/Jan. 2016 issue of Professional Artist...
Most artists I know are obsessive about how they organize their tools. They always keep their tubes of paint in the same place, and brushes are always positioned in the same configuration, every time....
Professional Artist — the foremost business magazine for visual artists — took home three awards from the Florida Magazine Association (FMA), including two first-place Charlie Awards for Best Overall...
At almost every technology trade show I've ever attended, I've seen displays and installations so elaborate that it's as if they're not just meant to evoke a sense of amazement — they’re meant...
One of the things I point out in my upcoming State of the Art column (In the Oct/Nov issue out on Sept....
I have always had a slightly obsessive love of books. I like to keep lots of them around because they are often my first stop when I want to learn something new. Frankly, it's a love I inherited from...
