BAMBOO

Corel Painter X art software simulates a Bamboo Pen ... without the drawbacks of traditional pens, which can clog, spatter, or run dry. Yo...

ARTISTS IN LOVE, part 16

In 1863, artist Albert Bierstadt and writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow left New York on an expedition into the great American wilderness. Bierstadt ...

THE NEXT GREAT ARTIST

Anyone curious about the identity of the next great artist will surely want to tune in to the new TV reality series, Work of Art: The Next G...

THAT PLACE IN BETWEEN

"Vertical Hold" by Sterling Hundley Somewhere between the art you have not seen yet and the art you have stopped seeing because i...

ELBOW ROOM

There are artists who make great big pictures of great big subjects: Albert Bierstadt's "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains" is 12...

CHAINED TO THE GOAT-GOD OF ART

They invented perfect beauty, those ancient Greeks. Of course people made beautiful things before the Greeks, but it was the Greeks who drea...

A FEW THOUGHTS ON AN EMPTY STUDIO

When the great illustrator Howard Pyle died in 1911, his heartbroken disciples gathered in his studio. Pyle had been a phenomenal creative f...