The process of constructing and preparing a canvas can take nearly as long as painting the painting itself. First the building, cutting,...

When my friends visit my house, I always make a point to have them run a hand across the surface of a painting. Everyone secretly wants...

"Santana" 7/8/14 John deRoulet "Butter tinted sunlight dripping thickly through dusty air. 100 degrees and dry except for the cellophane...

“Part of the problem is that artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally...

“After all, the error rests in the mistaken idea that the subject of a painting is the object painted.” – Robert Henri My current...

Cover: Parnassus by Mark Tobey There is a show at the Seattle art museum on a group of artists coined the North West Mystics by a 1953...

**Image: Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train by artist Jeff Koons. "The sculpture was created in 1986 as part of a Jeff Koons exhibition called...

“Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent…When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over...

"The Calling of St. Matthew" by Caravaggio, painted in 1600 AD for an Italian church named for the Saint is one of my favorite paintings....

"Everything has two aspects: the current aspect which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical...

"Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes...

In October of last year, I came across a quote while meandering on reddit. It stopped my browsing in its tracks and I had to pause to...

“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in...

"I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record." -Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The painting above is one of my absolute favorites....

"I had a large collection of various artists, but there were no Picassos. Friends told me that I ought to buy at least one of his works,...

At the end of March, I took a trip to Chicago. It was my first time planning and taking a trip on my own and I hope to make a habit of...