When you point your camera at a random thing on the street, you usually don’t expect much. But in the vast sea of dull photos that fill your camera roll, one stands out. Call it a miracle, or a lovely surprise, but if you feel like the pic is superior in composition, style, lighting, and somewhat resembles a classical painting, it may be that you have just encountered “accidental renaissance.”

Being able to analyze an artwork is essential for developing as an artist and to fully appreciate what the great artists create. If you don't understand what is going on in a master artwork, how could you expect to learn how to paint it for yourself? In this post, I discuss how to analyze art

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Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that allows you to create unique, freeform printed images every time. Unlike the more common relief printing, which uses a block stamp to reproduce the same image over and over again, monoprinting allows the freedom to create each image anew. This will allow you to produce abstract

Matt Smith discusses why it's important to focus on your unique idea and not be fully tied to your reference (in the field or photos).

Today's tarotscope -- Eight of Cups -- featuring the he Nicoletta Ceccoli Tarot series by Nicoletta Ceccoli, a Lo Scarebeo deck, published by Llewellyn.

Ever tried to paint a cat? Turns out, it’s not as easy as you might expect. It certainly wasn’t for these medieval artists anyway! While they excelled at painting religious scenes, portraits of Royalty and naked ladies, this particular type of pussy offered an altogether different challenge.

Simplification in art involves taking the complex details which we see all around us and simplifying it into a story, or a work of art. With every painting I create, I look for different ways to simplify what I am trying to say. In this post, I discuss some of the different ways you can

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the an...

Guest blogger Michele Poirier Mozzone shares images and process from her "Fractured Light" series which take the viewpoint from below the water's surface.

Art study - those are two words you either love or hate. Nonetheless, in this article you will learn why and how to do them.

SirJediPanda aka Thom L Sharp - Trying Not to Think, 2016 Drawings: Ballpoint Pen

Few would argue if we said that pets are an endless source of joy and happiness in our lives. Therefore, there is no surprise people are trying to immortalize them in every way possible. This Aussie painter, Vanessa Stockard, found the best way to do that by sneaking her three adorable cats, Kevin The Kittin, his mom Fluff Ferstenberg and the head of the adorable fluff family, Satan, into her paintings. Stockard’s process includes pieces developed without visual reference but rather from memory. These narratives incorporate domestic pets such as cats and dogs, juxtaposing the anthropomorphic nature of these animals are given by society, she infuses the personification of virtue and vice into the everyday canine and feline status quo. Cats with their fluffy comical exteriors yet instinctual urge to kill and a tendency to be cruel to their prey, dogs with their providence of happiness and friendship flung back to Churchill’s metaphor for depression. Despite this not-so -cheerful description of her works, Stockard manages to make her art somehow quirky and very enjoyable!

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 229, detail of f. 133v. Arthurian Romances [1) Le livre de Lancelot du Lac, part III. 2) La queste del Saint Graal. 3) La mort au Roy Artus.]. France,...

Practice makes perfect. For Netherlands-based digital artist Floortje, she not only shares her creative artworks such as her ‘Realism Challenge’ on Instagram @f

Tried to paint Dahyun but didn’t quite like it... Gonna make a new one.. But their new song “cheer up” is amazing :D