How To Overcome Painting Challenges

Slawa Radziszewska discusses her painting process and how to overcome painting challenges.

Simplifying Complex Compositions

While designing a successful landscape composition seems complex, I have identified principles that simplify the task.

Precise Compositions

My watercolor paintings focus on the Japanese landscape, cityscape, vehicles and waterways.

Interpreting Nature

Joke Frima’s nature-themed still lifes are often painted directly from studio setups

Truth In Detail

Chinese-American painter Z.S. Liang turns to historical detail to bring to life his works showing Native Americans

Creating Composition

A Critical Necessity

From Concept To Canvas

Warren Chang’s newest painting, Give Us Our Daily Bread, comes to fruition after years of development.

Control and Precision

The complexities of the figure are simplified in Daniel Maidman’s four-question approach.

Adeste Deguilmo When Neutral Color Functions as a Complementary

Adeste Deguilmo shares one method of painting a harmonious composition.

The Joy Of The Arts

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

A Celebration Two Decades in the Making

It is that time of year again to try to recap all of the incredible events and experiences of the Portrait Society’s annual The Art of the Portrait conference, which took place this year April 19 to 22 at the Hyatt Regency just outside Washington, D.C.—where it all began 20 years ago at the very first conference!

What's On The Back Of A Rembrandt?

Among the many calls the Portrait Society receives are requests to help identify the artist of an artwork that a person either purchased or inherited and they know very little about the provenance of the work.

Expressing Emotions

As an artist I am seeing my world with eyes wide open, noticing interesting and engaging scenes everywhere around me.

Honest Portrayals

THE PAINTINGS OF MARIO ROBINSON FOCUS ON THE ESSENCE OF THE SITTER AS WELL AS THEIR UNIVERSAL TRUTHS

Painting The Diaspora

Papay Solomon’s portraits tell untold stories of immigrants and refugees

Grace En Plein Air

For me, plein air painting is the most challenging way to paint, and the rewards are even better!

Basics Of Brilliance

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

From Root To Crown

A Conversation with Bo Bartlett

Into The Wild

Adventuring into the mountains allows DJ the chance to experience the landscape firsthand

An Artist's Artist

Remembering the life and legacy of portrait artist Everett Raymond Kinstler.

Virginia Blackstock: Making An Impact

Virginia Blackstock focuses on powerful designs that show the effect of lights and shadows.

Technical And Contemporary

It has always been the painters of the 16th and 17th centuries that have guided my interests in painting.

Representing The Real

Insights on the career, techniques and new traveling retrospective of prolific artist Daniel E. Greene.

A Direct But Considered Approach To Painting A Portrait

The Art of the portrait.