• UK New Year Honours for National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi and artist Rebecca Salter

    Updated: 2024-12-31 08:57:20
    Charity chief Rose Aidin, designer Tom Dixon and artist Barbara Davis Rae also receive awards

  • Dreaming of spring? These floral paintings and demo take you there. 

    Updated: 2024-12-31 07:15:00
    Denmark-based artist Silja Salmistu’s commitment to spontaneity, experimentation, and emotional resonance enlivens her floral and still life subjects. The post Dreaming of spring? These floral paintings and demo take you there.  appeared first on Artists Network.

  • Congratulations VAA Alumni Student Georgie Rey Selected for this years Pastel Art Society Exhibition

    Updated: 2024-12-27 13:18:21
    : Curriculum About Pricing Free Tips Blog Log In Contact Curriculum About Pricing Free Tips Blog Log In Contact Congratulations VAA Alumni Student Georgie Rey : Selected for this years Pastel Art Society Exhibition Copy Share Pin Email Tweet 0 Shares Get free painting tips and plein air painting techniques  sent straight to your inbox or on my social media . Well done Georgie It’s always great news when a graduate of the Virtual Art Academy has a major success . So huge congratulations to Georgie Rey for being accepted into 2024 Pastel Art Society Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in January February 2024. Not only that , but her painting Buriton Farm In Turquoise White Wild Flowers” has been accepted for the Royal Society of British Artists RBA Exhibition at the Mall Galleries , London

  • The Top Three Reasons Why The Way You Learn How To Paint Means Your Paintings Are Not Getting Any Be

    Updated: 2024-12-27 13:18:19
    Curriculum About Pricing Free Tips Blog Log In Contact Curriculum About Pricing Free Tips Blog Log In Contact The Top Three Reasons Why The Way You Learn How To Paint Means Your Paintings Are Not Getting Any Better Share Pin Email Tweet 0 Shares Are you really keen to learn how to paint well , but are just continually getting frustrated with your progress No matter how many books you read , or videos you watch , your paintings are just not getting any better Ask yourself these three important questions and you may discover : why Question 1 : Does your learning process look like this Is your main method for learning how to paint , buying and building a large collection of book on different ways to paint , watching dozens of DVD’s or online videos of painting demonstrations , browsing one

  • Drawing back the curtain—X-rated art makes waves in Miami

    Updated: 2024-12-27 07:55:10
    David Nolan Gallery showed a number of erotic works on paper in a secluded room at Art Basel Miami Beach

  • Prison inmates and artist Marinella Senatore create light installation for Vatican Jubilee Year

    Updated: 2024-12-27 07:16:54
    The Holy See will launch a series of contemporary art projects at prisons next year

  • Studio Snapshots: Carolyn Marshall Wright

    Updated: 2024-12-27 07:15:00
    The Virginia artist turned her home’s basement into a versatile and hospitable place for the art and business of painting, proving a studio doesn’t need to be fancy to be functional. This post is only available to members. The post Studio Snapshots: Carolyn Marshall Wright appeared first on Artists Network.

  • ’Tis the Season: An Art Quiz for Winter 

    Updated: 2024-12-27 07:15:00
    … The post ’Tis the Season: An Art Quiz for Winter  appeared first on Artists Network.

  • A brush with... Beth Bate, director of Dundee Contemporary Arts

    Updated: 2024-12-26 08:26:59
    The joys of Agnes Martin, Middlemarch and The Cure

  • Taking the Mick? Rolling Stones singer Jagger is a judge on Caribbean art jury

    Updated: 2024-12-24 07:59:00
    New Mustique contemporary art show and prize feature paintings by 16 artists from the region

  • From sfumato to selfies—can art history explain the Instagram phenomenon?

    Updated: 2024-12-24 07:45:12
    In his new book Koenraad Jonckheere argues that the way we view images on the social media platform is rooted in the past

  • The Holidays in Art: 6 Stories for the Season

    Updated: 2024-12-24 07:15:00
    Since it’s that time of year again, we thought it would be only fitting to put an artsy spin on things by rounding up a holiday-themed collective of artworks. The post The Holidays in Art: 6 Stories for the Season appeared first on Artists Network.

  • AI to Z: an art & tech alphabet for 2024

    Updated: 2024-12-23 08:58:05
    The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year

  • Chasing a Glitter Path

    Updated: 2024-12-21 22:52:00
    <divNew YouTube video covers:1. Pathways of light reflected on water, . Hotspot priming . Contre-jour lighting.4. The poetic traditions of glitter paths and moonpaths.

  • Bengal Biennale debuts sprawling inaugural edition

    Updated: 2024-12-21 19:38:12
    Set across 27 venues in two cities, the exhibition included more than 100 artists from past and present

  • SFMoMA fires contemporary art curator Eungie Joo amid misconduct allegations

    Updated: 2024-12-20 21:22:19
    Joo had joined the museum in 2017 as its first contemporary art curator and most recently organised an ambitious project by Kara Walker

  • Zilia Sánchez, Cuban artist renowned for shaped, abstract canvases, has died, aged 98

    Updated: 2024-12-20 17:28:15
    Sánchez, who fled Cuba and ultimately settled in Puerto Rico, only achieved widespread critical acclaim late in her career

  • 2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows - podcast

    Updated: 2024-12-20 14:15:07
    From the devastating war in Gaza to art attacks in museums, our editors analyse the year's biggest stories

  • Indigenous Alaskan artist Nicholas Galanin receives $200,000 prize from Crystal Bridges Museum

    Updated: 2024-12-19 18:23:24
    The biennial award is named for the late collector and food company president Don Tyson

  • Brafa turns 70, plus new fairs in Cyprus and Texas—a quick look at art fairs in 2025

    Updated: 2024-12-19 15:06:08
    Vima, the first international contemporary art fair in Cyprus, opens in the spring, while Untitled Art expands to Houston

  • Figurative painter Claire Tabouret chosen to design contemporary stained-glass windows for Notre-Dame

    Updated: 2024-12-19 00:09:17
    Heritage organisations remain opposed to President Macron's plans to replace chapel windows at the newly reopened cathedral

  • Acquisitions round-up: a rediscovered 19th-century self-portrait, Van Gogh’s ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’ and a painting by a contemporary Tanzanian artist

    Updated: 2024-12-18 10:28:48
    Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

  • Naomi Beckwith named artistic director of Documenta in 2027

    Updated: 2024-12-18 00:29:31
    The deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum says she is "humbled by the breadth of this responsibility"

  • Celebrating 10 Years of Jackson’s Art Prize

    Updated: 2024-12-17 09:30:41
    Art Materials Techniques Oil Painting Watercolour Painting Acrylic Painting Pastel Painting Drawing Printmaking Studio and General Glossary of Art Terms FAQs Submit Your Idea Interviews Features Artist Interviews Features Editorials Shop Materials Jackson’s Art Prize Online Gallery Features Editorials Jackson's Art Prize 2025 Celebrating 10 Years of Jackson†s Art Prize Published : 17th December 2024 by Evie Hatch Comments : 0 We†re proud that Jackson†s Art Prize is now in its tenth year To celebrate , we look back on some of the previous winners , the exciting milestones , and how the international prize has evolved over the years . Celebrating 10 Years of Jackson†s Art Prize The Beginnings of Jackson†s Art Prize The inaugural Jackson†s Art Prize then named Jackson†s Open

  • Working on Cartridge Paper vs. Pastel Card

    Updated: 2024-12-17 07:15:00
    David Brammeld shares some insights about working on two different surface types: cartridge paper and pastel card. The post Working on Cartridge Paper vs. Pastel Card appeared first on Artists Network.

  • The Radiant History of Gold in Art

    Updated: 2024-12-16 02:34:35
    Art Materials Techniques Oil Painting Watercolour Painting Acrylic Painting Pastel Painting Drawing Printmaking Studio and General Glossary of Art Terms FAQs Submit Your Idea Interviews Features Artist Interviews Features Editorials Shop Materials Jackson’s Art Prize Online Gallery Features Editorials Pigments The Radiant History of Gold in Art Published : 16th December 2024 by Evie Hatch Comments : 0 Gold is an elemental metal which , along with copper and iron , was among the first metals used by human beings . For millennia , its lustre has made it a desirable and valuable material , and the oldest surviving gold artefacts date from the fifth millennium BC . This article explores some of the ways that gold has been used in two-dimensional art , from medieval panel painting to Gustav

  • LearnFromMasters YouTube channel

    Updated: 2024-12-15 21:38:14
    If, like me, you enjoy YouTube videos about art and artists, you may have come across a number of slideshow style videos showcasing the art of historic painters. In many of these, if not the majority, the creator of the videos seems compelled to add motion — panning, zooming and using transitions that flip, swipe, […]

  • Two Art Podcasts

    Updated: 2024-12-15 21:02:00
    : Life Lessons from Dinosaurs Art from Dinotopia plus whimsical wisdom James Gurney This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators , plein-air painters , sketchers , comic artists , animators , art students , and writers . You'll find practical studio tips , insights into the making of the Dinotopia books , and first-hand reports from art schools and . museums Blog Index Academic Painters 609 Animals 323 Animation 135 Architecture 37 Art By Committee 44 Art Podcasts 3 Art Schools 105 Audio 35 Book reviews 82 Casein Painting 91 Catskill Mountains 11 Clementoons 12 Color 248 Color and Light Book 83 Comics Cartooning 169 Composition 105 Computer Graphics 107 Dinosaurs 112 Dinotopia 231 Effects Phenomena 44 Elementary Schools 10 Figure Drawing 65 GJ Book Club 7 Golden Age

  • A Brain Circuit that Detects Faces

    Updated: 2024-12-14 09:50:00
    : Life Lessons from Dinosaurs Art from Dinotopia plus whimsical wisdom James Gurney This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators , plein-air painters , sketchers , comic artists , animators , art students , and writers . You'll find practical studio tips , insights into the making of the Dinotopia books , and first-hand reports from art schools and . museums Blog Index Academic Painters 609 Animals 323 Animation 135 Architecture 37 Art By Committee 44 Art Podcasts 3 Art Schools 105 Audio 35 Book reviews 82 Casein Painting 91 Catskill Mountains 11 Clementoons 12 Color 248 Color and Light Book 83 Comics Cartooning 169 Composition 105 Computer Graphics 107 Dinosaurs 112 Dinotopia 231 Effects Phenomena 44 Elementary Schools 10 Figure Drawing 65 GJ Book Club 7 Golden Age

  • John Constable’s Sunset on the Seine

    Updated: 2024-12-14 05:13:03
    For your inspiration today is a colorful painting by John Constable titled Sunset on the Seine. (Sorry for the fixation on sunsets lately! I’ll change it up after this.) This is one of those paintings that makes me want to pick up a brush and push color around. It’s also unusually colorful from what I ... Read more The post John Constable’s Sunset on the Seine appeared first on Draw Paint Academy.

  • Brock Larson

    Updated: 2024-12-13 15:19:54
    Brock Larson is a contemporary American painter living in Minnesota. On his website you will find landscape and still life paintings along with portrait drawings. In his landscapes, Larson often pulls us into the shadowy depths of deep woods, while at others times leading us out onto broad fields and expanses of water. Brock Larson […]

  • Exclusive: 2024 Downloadable Index for Artists Magazine

    Updated: 2024-12-13 07:15:00
    As the 40th anniversary year of Artists Magazine concludes, we’re pleased to wrap up another year of creative inspiration, insight, and ideas with this members-only, downloadable Artists Magazine 2024 index. This post is only available to members. The post Exclusive: 2024 Downloadable Index for Artists Magazine appeared first on Artists Network.

  • Anatomy of a Painting: J.M.W. Turner

    Updated: 2024-12-13 07:15:00
    Anatomy of a Painting: J.M.W Turner DEK: The English Romantic artist displays youthful mastery in a subject not usually associated with him. This post is only available to members. The post Anatomy of a Painting: J.M.W. Turner appeared first on Artists Network.

  • Painting Lively Portraits in Watercolor

    Updated: 2024-12-10 07:15:00
    Spontaneity of color and pose bring life to Pam Wenger’s portait and figurative works. The post Painting Lively Portraits in Watercolor appeared first on Artists Network.

  • Eye Candy for Today: Carl Theodor Reiffenstein castle

    Updated: 2024-12-06 01:10:18
    Weite Landschaft mit idealer rheinischer Burg (Wide landscape with an ideal Rhenish castle), Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches (45 x 36 cm) This landscape painting by the 19th century German painter is a perfect example of counterchange — the reversal of value relationships between a shape or object and the […]

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