Artist Search

Insights on how to market to your client and keep them happy long after their purchase.

A look at the key elements of commissioned artwork

Get to know your audience, so that everyone attending your show is a potential buyer

Instead of just focusing on the present, look at what is ahead in your art career

Sheri Farabaugh's seascapes hone in on the reflections, transparency and movement of water

With a successful career as a professional medical illustrator behind her, Jean Miller Harding has no problems when it comes to fleshing out the bones of her real life subjects

Did you know that from the moment you finish your painting it will start to deteriorate?

Holly Dyrland focuses on a balance of opaque/transparent layers to intensify depth in her landscapes

Working alla prima, Andreas Liss takes on a loose, unbridled approach in his artwork

Yanina Eberhard builds her colors by checking value and temperature relative to the paint already on the surface

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

A 7 part series that takes you into the world of the art student.

A 7 part series that takes you into the world of the art student

An 8 part series that takes you into the world of the art student

An 8 part series that takes you into the world of the art student

The final part in the series that takes you into the world of the art student

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