People in landscape paintings

Cafetiere Study, 30x30cm / ~12x12, Oil over Acrylic on panel. Available.

The world is so full of history and mystery, and sometimes the two intertwine in such a way as to be almost beyond belief.

Click Here to Bid (6x6in. - starts at $100) Here's another market scene, this time from France (can you tell?). It's hard to photograph red. Not only didn't the reference photos tell me everything I needed to know to paint the red dress, the paint itself was hard to photograph (it looks better in person). Because I knew this, I tried to pay attention when I was out there to what was really happening when red things were partly in light and partly in shadow.

Ryan Hart on Instagram: “some beautiful doig”

So after a week away , and 2020 being the year it has been we all have a lot to reflect on. I can't begin to imagine the year some folk have endured , losing people they love and not being able to be with them ....and carers having to be people's families and loved ones at the most difficult of times. We owe a lot of

The Landscape Painter’s Guide to Selecting Reference Photos

Painted on unstretched canvas, this one-of-a-kind, original oil painting pictures a serene setting — thick, thoughtful brushstrokes, a muted palette, and pastoral imagery allow this painting to exude a certain kind of artful magic.The unstretched canvas format can be framed in two different ways: stretch the canvas onto wooden stretchers and hang as is or place into a floater frame, or use a cut-to-size matboard with a standard frame (the same way you would with art on paper). Size 16" x 20"…