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Megan Elizabeth Read approaches her figurative paintings in a contiguous manner, moving between detail and simplicity

This artist "paints ugly first", before the transformation into her trademark luscious colors.

Canadian experimental artist Patricia Peacock uses multiple shapes within shapes to achieve complex integrated designs

Color complements, fortified with other types of contrast, are the key to high-impact pastels.

Cross-pollinating size and color has given voluptuous blooms a unique dose of botanical hybrid vigor.

Find out who and where we are.

Don't wait to be discovered. Do something yourself!

Using dynamic color and expressive brushstrokes, Alex Sprouse highlights the most important elements of his gouache pieces

Our Art Fairs series concludes with advice on setting up the stall, lighting and security, finances and record-keeping.

If you are to survive in a tough market you must pay attention to the details.

This artist finds watercolor happiness

Mark Boedges focuses on the big picture and the detail at the same time by letting the brush do the work

John Lovett shows how working quickly can force our focus and to produce surprising results.

Working with his reference to develop a concept, Grant Gilsdorf imbues his paintings with narrative and meaning

Graphic and contemporary

Should you go full tilt down your own path, or consider the realities of the marketplace?

Focus on Materials: In each issue we examine some of the essential art materials available to practicing artists

Seek out the right connections for your artwork and market to them more effectively

Listings for museum exhibits and gallery shows that highlight this venerable tradition

Andrew Davis shows how to create wet seascapes with a dry medium

The ingredients that will transform a mundane subject into an extraordinary painting.

Whatever the subject, Suzy Smith finds that her paintings benefit from the softening of edges and editing of content

Through photos and studies Yael Maimon identifies the ideal composition, direction, color and value for each of her works

Part 3 of our outstanding Art Fair series.

For watercolorist Fei Xiqiang, painting is a personal process of interpretation and expression

The patterns created by the effects of light hold endless fascination for Michael Schuh

The still lifes of Marsha Chandler often contain shiny or glass objects that allow for a play of light and shapes

Through the subject of water, Danielle Eubank shows how to paint a work that relies on form, pattern and color

Lorraine Watry finds unique challenges in painting water, glass and metal

By using suggestion and subtlety, John Lovett allows viewers to actively interpret his paintings

Joseph McGurl takes what he’s learned from plein air studies and transforms them into something new

Our report on the 2005 Art of the Portrait Conference in Washington.

Reflecting the mood and beauty of our daily human existence to the viewer is this artist's goal.

How to use heightened tonal values, color and perspective to express emotional and spiritual responses.

Kami Mendlik demonstrates how to see the relationships between colors as opposed to a literal interpretation of each solitary hue

Classical still life painter William Galvez mentally plans and visualizes the compositions of his paintings in detail

The life and work of Zoltan Szabo

Considered an anachronism, Cornelis Le Mair looks like a cross between Frans Hals and one of the three musketeers, and he produces modern day masterpieces.