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Norman Rockwell’s America
For 47 years Norman Rockwell worked for the Saturday Evening Post creating hundreds of paintings interpreting the typical American…”My fundamental purpose,” Rockwell said. Year after year he portrayed...
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Jeremy Goodding interview
“Being an artist is, one part calling and one part choice,” says master still life painter, Jeremy Goodding. “Ultimately, I was created to be an artist and I live with a certain compulsion that I can’t...
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Originality
I just finished reading C.S. Lewis’ book, Mere Christianity. A quote on the last page of the book grabbed my attention. It is powerful, insightful and very convicting. The depth of truth here is...
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Musings and teaching of Edgar Payne
Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947) was born in Missouri but was raised in Arkansas. At the age of 26 he went to California, discovering and falling in love with Laguna Beach…later to settle there for a time...
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Edgar Payne on landscape painting
Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947) was born in Missouri but was raised in Arkansas. At the age of 26 he went to California, discovering and falling in love with Laguna Beach…later to settle there for a time...
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A first…a historic global plein air event
I am honored to have been invited to be part of this historic event…a global virtual experience. I am one of about 20 artists that will share their knowledge with the world. If, after reading the...
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Edgar Payne on composition and drawing
Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947) was born in Missouri but was raised in Arkansas. At the age of 26 he went to California, discovering and falling in love with Laguna Beach…later to settle there for a time...
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Racing towards Gomorrah in 2020
Hearing the occasional solitary crack of a fire cracker in our neighborhood and the cancellation of so many 4th of July celebrations across America, sadly, seems quite appropriate, and errily symbolic....
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Plein Air Live almost here
I am honored to be part of this historic event…a global virtual experience. I am one of about 20 artists that will share their knowledge with the world. After reading the information below and watching...
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Dancing with the angels
You know, I never thought much about what was behind the creation of those paintings that seemed to have almost painted themselves. I’ve had a few of them during my career, but sadly, not very many. A...
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The Newlyn School – the Naturalists
In 1990, after 45 years, I was able to visit the place of my birth for the first time…38 Treverbyn Road, St. Ives, Cornwall, England. I not only wanted to see where I was born but I was also interested...
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Stanhope Alexander Forbes
“I had come from France and, wandering down into Cornwall, came one spring morning along that dusty road by which Newlyn is approached from Penzance. Little did I think that the cluster of grey-roofed...
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“Malabar Farm”– its creation
A few years ago, based on the recommendation of one of my collectors, my wife and I visited Holmes County, Ohio…still one of my favorite painting locations. Very near Holmes County is Richland County,...
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An interview with The Artful Painter
Carl Olson is a fine art painter, photographer, filmmaker, and the voice behind The Artful Painter podcast. Each episode of the podcast is a collection of art lessons by artists, for artists,...
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Does Art really matter?
What is Art anyway that it should matter? I’m speaking of Art with a capital “A”, not the small “a” art that is done for fun or by one that has not achieved some degree of mastery. If Art can’t be...
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Romona Youngquist interview
If there is one artist who’s work, temperament and personality coalesce into a perfectly homogeneous whole, it seems to me that artist is Romona Youngquist. A woman of contrasts, just like her...
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Eric Rhoads live
I recently had the privilege of being a guest on Eric Rhoads Live. Eric is the CEO of Streamline Publishing, publisher of several art magazines and videos for the fine artist. Due to all the...
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Garin Baker on figurative painting
Garin Baker has been teaching figurative painting at the Art Students League in New York for the last seven years. His popular class is consistently full, with a long list of students anxiously waiting...
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Two companies dominant the art world
It’s a 67.4 billion dollar global art market, 84% of which is funded by the United States, England and China. Five auction houses combine for over half of the global sales, and of those five Christie’s...
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OPA Wet Paint Competition award winners
It was a great honor and privilege to be asked to judge the Oil Painters of America Wet Paint Competition last week. The annual event, part of OPA’s National Juried Exhibition, is always a popular...
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