“Something about the forest has always transfixed me. The abstraction, flow, and complexity has always drawn me to it." Jared Brady...

How often have we heard that good things come in small packages? The next question is "How small is small?" In the case of the painting...

"I challenge myself to find interest in 'uninteresting' subjects." Chris Alvarez If you were to ask the typical American for a symbol of...

"In a figure, the pose itself as symbol and language must communicate from across the room." Maria Battista. The pose, yes, the pose is...

It's autumn. We see the leaves turning golden outside our windows. We feel the nip in the air when the evening comes. We even turn on the...

"This painting was done one afternoon in late October in a small village called Arroyo Hondo, north of Taos. The sun was beginning to...

On painting: "We are only working on one human sense. Sight. Everything else has to be imagined. I can paint fog, rain, snow, smoke, fill...

Jess Preble, the artist who painted this quiet, poetic piece, says a lot about what love is in the portrait of this single flower. Love,...

"Concept. At the heart of every piece is a concept. A concept doesn’t have to be a grand statement. It can be as simple as the...

Just look at him. What a happy character. If he were human, he might be one of the characters at the neighborhood watering hole. You...

Looking at a Michael Baum landscape can really take you places. He comments that this painting says "adventure" to him, and he is correct....

Alla Prima is an Italian term for painting wet-on-wet. The French are more direct, calling it au premier coup, or a first stroke.

The raven looks like he was sent by Edgar Allen Poe as he sits with his claws hooked under the lid of the toy box. Is he just curious? Or...

"...for me watercolor is a kind of break out medium. Like a spillway from a dam or reservoir, it likes to run free, and nothing is better...

An old pond, frog jumps in, Kerplunk! So goes Alan Ginsberg's translation of Matsuo Basho's famous haiku. A simple act can stir things up.

The actual history goes back a few centuries to a monk with the name Pseudo-Bede who wrote of a dark, fully bearded king named Balthazar.

The painting is the Madonna in the Forest, sometimes called the Adoration in the Forest by Filippo Lippi in the Medici Chapel in Florence.

This painting is an enigma. Certain things seem evident. The boat is in rough water, the mast is broken, and the sharks are circling.

So in this season of tricks and treats, All Souls Day and the Day of the Dead, remember to live while the living is good, for tomorrow....

Oh the pain of being thrown in the art world's dumpster as the medium for dabbling, Sunday painting, and amusements for little old ladies.