The landscape in the Netherlands, particularly in the lowlands, is largely sky. This seems to suit contemporary Dutch plein air painter Roos (pronounced like “Rose”) Schuring just fine. She loves to portray cloud filled skies of all kinds. Though she paints in all weather and Read More …

Having never been to the J. Paul Getty Museum, all I know about it is limited to what I see online, but judging from that, and particularly from the selection from the museum available for viewing in zoomable high-resolution versions on the Google Art Project, Read More …

Artist Derek Penix came from a family in which his mother and grandfather both painted, and took it up himself after high school. He says his admiration for painters like Nicolai Fechin, John Singer Sargent and the French Impressionists has been superseded as his primary Read More …

Those of us on the East Coast of the U.S. have so far been experiencing an unusually mild winter; not so for most of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. In Europe it must seem as though the North Pole has shifted into your back Read More …

Though considered a member of the original core group of French Impressionists, Edgar Degas (Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas), always stood apart, both in his approach to painting, in which he considered himself a realist rather than an Impressionist, and in his emphasis on drawing. Amid Read More …