Playing with art by making studies and using many materials and various styles to paint the same thing, is one way artists develop skill.

For the past few months, I've been involved with our local art association. This is a new adventure for me!

Fixing the gray background on a botanical painting photograph.

It's officially a series! I'm finishing the third painting in a series of traditional botanical paintings based on Shakespeare's Romeo...

Have you ever noticed the different sizes of museum paintings? Maybe, if you're like me, when you leave a museum, you think about all of...

If you can walk into a museum filled with art and identify the artists without looking at the placard, then you understand artistic...

We are what we read! Books influence artists in many ways.

How I paint large roses in watercolor. This is a technical post for those who are curious.

Some of my paintings take 50+ hours to complete. Here's how I make it through very slow work--and it's not just patience!