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Is exposure all that's needed to start people talking?

Harley Brown’s fascinating things no one else will tell you

Fiddling and overworking can kill a promising watercolor.

Portrait Society of America Inaugural Convention Report.

Try combining oil pastels with gouache washes.

Janet Cook-Rutnik, Ruth H. Sawatzk, Ann Zielinski

John Lovett delves into color theory and demonstrates how to properly mix pigments

Why choose a single medium when you can use many at the same time?

Neutral colors are essential in painting, but some neutrals can drain the energy right out of your work.

Michele Poirier Mozzone's series of underwater figures melds two styles through sunlight rays and water distortion

How contemporary painter Robert Ryan uses precise modeling to emphasize the mood of his deceptively simple compositions.

Vadim Dolgov shows how to use light and colour when creating still life compositions.

Alex Kelly interprets the visual relationships between subjects in his artwork, using it as a springboard for creative expression

Featuring the pictorial thoughts and images of a Master Artist.

Try free-flowing monoprints as jumping off points for landscape paintings.

If you can master atmosphere and mood you will be able to turn ordinary paintings into art.

John Lovett shows the merits of stretching the limits of a subject into a whole series of paintings

How a chance encounter in a New York restaurant resulted in a portrait commission.

From turquoise to green to brilliant blue, Dolores Saul demonstrates how to accurately paint the color and movement of the ocean

This artist aims for transparency in every layer of her work by integrating the effect of light moving across subjects into the design stage of a painting.

Christine Egnoski continues her dialogue with members of the Portrait Society faculty prior to this year's May conference in Washington DC.

Colored pencil ideas.

Using her own set of rules and knowledge of paints, Kathleen Giles combines techniques to create dramatic and realistic watercolors