CATEGORIES

Agile & Precise

Sandra Bartels moves swiftly between pastels and pastel pencils, focusing separately on each area of her subject

Tactile Response

Anastasia Trusova utilizes gels, palette knives and scrapers to create multiple textures in her paintings

Social Realism

Warren Chang breaks down his recent paintings capturing elements of life in California during the past two years

Shared Joy

Claudia Hartley chats with Scottsdale Artists' School about her roots as an artist and instructor

The Ethos of Turning Point Pen Co.

"Michael Kahwajy-Hyland has a dynamic vision for the future of artisan pen making."

189 Minutes With … Art Spiegelman

"As the latest fight over Maus erupts, its artist-creator searches for his eyeglasses."

Painting Golden Valley

In every issue of International Artist we will feature a Painting Workshop from one of New Zealand's best artists.

Gentle scenes

Soft pastel is a special medium for me. It gives me freedom, control and the possibility to express myself on paper in a variety of ways. I use different types of paper for different effects.

Ethereal quality

I use my work to explore my relationship with the landscape and the feelings of peaceful solitude and contemplative awe. I carry these emotions when I am surrounded by beautiful scenery. It's what I seek to express in my paintings. Watercolor lends itself perfectly to this task due to its ethereal and delicate nature.

HOW TO MAKE GRADIENTS

James Gurney demonstrates how to get your colors to change gradually throughout your picture

PLEIN AIR PAINTING AND ARTISTIC GROWTH

Plein air artist Michael King explores elements unique painting in the field in this three-part series.

The Illusionist

Classically-trained artist Julia Albo uses the power of observation to create three-dimensionality on a flat surface

The Power of Iteration

The Way of Watercolor: In this four-part series, Stephen Berry lends his thoughts and expertise in the realm of watercolor painting

Tips and Tricks

John Lovett shares a few of his studio tips, from brush care to ideal ways to store watercolor paper

Young at Art

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

Louis Carr — Intimate Spaces and Youthful Portraits

Louis Carr is an artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina, who is well-known for his intimate and delicately rendered portrait and landscape paintings.

The Innovator's Dilemma

Management author and guru Seth Godin on how to fearlessly embrace creativity

Artistic Advocates

Making sure musicians get a fair shake via Blockchain

Because Our Underworld Is World Class

Samuel Fuller (1912–1997) became a newspaper copy boy when he was just 12. By the time he was 17, he was working the murder beat for the New York Evening Graphic, a tabloid so lurid it was known as the New York Pornographic. Fuller knew a good lede when he saw one.

Lenworth “Joonbug” McIntosh

Life as an Open Studio

Hilda Palafox – The Open Vessel

Hilda Palafox is known for glorious, colorful murals and confident, comfortable paintings of women, but an appreciation of her ceramics gives extra insight into an artist who exquisitely portrays the fragile and the sturdy.

Salman Toor

From Pakistan with Love

The Mothership – Sublime Afrofuturism at OMCA

“Afrofuturism is sort of like a filter that can be applied to any aspect of life. It is a theory of knowledge. It often collapses the past, present, and future into a singular experience or recontextualizes a historical moment. [...]"

SCAD Museum of Art

A Happy and Bountiful Ten-Year Anniversary

Daniel Richter

Digging for the Truth

Jocelyn Tsaih's Soft Focus

Glowing With the Flow

Dedicated Expansion

Ken Harman is Still Building

Jasper and Me

The artist who invented contemporary art also changed my life.

Awe and Wonder

As a child living in central Illinois, Bruce Cascia was given a Brownie camera by his father. The simple cameras were barely more than a box with a lens and a shutter release. They held film—“Two and-quarter by two-and-a-quarter,” Cascia recalls—but there was little room for bells and whistles.

Enhanced Memories

Throughout her three-decade career artist, Carrie Pearce has become recognized for painting odd objects or out-of-the-ordinary scenarios that have a touch of whimsy and sentimentality.