Archive - Paint Here

Should Art Be About Personal Expression?

The case for impersonality

Nov 11 •

Lesser-Known Painting Terms

What we can learn from "houding," "breadth," and "tenebrism"

Nov 9 •

Value Before Color?

What's the thought process in planning a composition?

Nov 6 •

How I Edit an Art Video

Painting is boring, but videos don't have to be.

Nov 4 •

Form Thickening

Beefing up the small forms

Nov 1 •

October 2024

Breaking into the Art Industry

How do you make a living as an artist in these turbulent times?

Oct 30 •

Lines and the Brain, Part 2

However you define them, lines or edges are an exciting topic now because of new breakthroughs in vision science.

Oct 28 •

Lines and the Brain

Do lines exist in Nature?

Oct 25 •

Lightning Sketch Artists

Entertaining an audience with live drawing

Oct 23 •

Golden-Age illustrators, such as Robert Fawcett below, often planned their compositions in black and white, throwing big areas into inky black shadows.

Oct 22 •

The compositional device of presenting a figure from behind

Oct 19 •

The Beholder's Share

The artist does only half of the work in a painting.

Oct 16 •

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