Artists Magazine

From the pictorial descriptions of hunting expeditions preserved on the walls of caves to the fruit-filled art of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and on through history, food has been a prime subject for artistic enterprise. In some cases, these depic

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was born sometime between 1525 and 1530, when the High Renaissance had ended in Italy and humanist ideals had taken hold throughout Europe. By the end of his life in 1569, Bruegel was the most important artist of the Dutch an

“the Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields,” is the meaning of the name of the 13th-to-18th-century Lan Na or Lanna Kingdom, encompassing present day Burma, Northern Thailand and Laos. A visit to the Northern Thai city of Chiang Mai and its surrounding ar

My five-minute sketch, Preliminary Study for Ruen Bua Rice Fields: Dry Season (graphite pencil on paper, 6x10) captures the lights and darks of the scene and lays out the compositional bones for a watercolor painting. It portrays the principle landsc

Introducing the new launch of Lyra Rembrandt Monochrome—perfect for drawing and sketching. This range includes both dry and oil pencils in white, sanguine, sepia light and dark, and water-soluble and nonwater-soluble graphite pencils, as well as char

Learning to paint en plein air means overcoming a number of challenges, but the payoff is well worth the effort: Learning to observe: Most of us have a tendency to draw and paint what we know rather than what we observe. Our preconceived ideas are t

Contemporary drawing artists understand that their drawings are two things: an image of something and an image that is something, in and of itself. This second concept—that the image is something itself—occurs because every surface has both a texture

When people think of colored pencil, they often think of unskilled scribbles of color. In recent years, however, artists have begun to pick up their pencils and shatter preconceived notions about this medium. So why use colored pencil in fine art? A

Your next travel kit might be as close as your medicine cabinet or junk drawer: ● Those day-of-the-week pill containers are the perfect size for palette wells—and they have attached lids. ● Plastic butter lids can do double duty as mixing areas. ●

Creatives have connected food with art-making since the first cave inhabitants began making marks more than 40,000 years ago. We know the elk, deer, bison, giraffes and other species depicted in paintings on walls or carved into rock were hunted for

Whether it be a wedding feast, a summer picnic in the park, a romantic candlelit dinner or a lunch date with an old friend, food is central to so many of the great pleasures in life. The subject, however, is not without tension. The challenges of hun

Such an approach may not seem conducive to high productivity, but Carol Marine’s output belies that impression. Painting is the one thing she prefers doing more than anything else. Discipline is important, but the key isn’t meeting a quota but feedin

In 2010, right around the time America’s Food Network and other media were busily churning out celebrity chefs, England launched the television show The Great British Bake Off (GBBO) that would go on to become the most watched program in Great Britai

In a world offering instant smartphone photography, the concept of artists patiently sketching and painting from life is a refreshing alternative. Unlike capturing scenes digitally, art created on-site from direct observation has the power to reveal

admits Kathleen Speranza, the distinguished still life and floral painter who has been on a quest to translate the objects of her affection. “Roses have always been on the periphery of my work,” she says, explaining the genesis of her passion, “but I

at some point in autumn, time compresses. The end of the year looms, the fourth quarter with all its financial logistics leers, and holidays lurk around every corner. Finding studio time can be difficult, and convincing others to respect it can be ev

“Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait” is an exhibition in partnership with the cultural institution Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah. The collection on exhibit is one of the largest private Islamic art collections in the