For the August/September 2015 issue of Professional Artist, I'll be examining just what makes the online education website Lynda.com such a powerful service and an enjoyable way to learn. However, to...
We are surrounded by all sorts of technology. We wake up to alarms set on our smartphones, and then drive to work and use GPS to guide us. At our jobs, we log in to computers, send emails and write...
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I've been asked to write a new column for Professional Artist magazine,...
Although the art of self-portraiture — or a portrait of oneself done by oneself — has been around for centuries, the selfie, which is a self-portrait photo typically taken with a camera phone, is only...
Pastels are often referred to as colors and tones that have a milky, washed out or desaturated quality. But if you’re an artist who works in soft pastel, you know that this medium can yield tones and...
At the conclusion of Catherine Lampert’s essay in the catalog that accompanied the 1993-94 exhibition of Lucian Freud’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the art historian wrote how...
If there were a royal family of American painting, the Wyeths would be it. Jamie Wyeth (born 1946), who will have his first comprehensive retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, in...
Graffiti art has always, by its nature, been an outsider genre, not just in the literal sense of being created in the streets and alleyways of urban settings. Most often artists armed with spray cans,...
Most artists tend to think of themselves as time creators, meaning that they attempt to come up with an inventive idea or concept, and through various means or methods, they build, construct or simply...
In the mid- to late 1970s, some in the artist world theorized that modernism was finished. It had achieved all its goals, and had now become the very thing it had fought against, namely the academy....
