Today is Anders Zorn's birthday! Born 160 years ago in the small rural town of Mora, Sweden on February 18, 1860, he is considered to be Sweden's greatest ar...

“I always paint what I see,” said Turner; yet no painter ever departed further from close imitation or took more liberties with his subject. He elongated ste...

“As one might speak of Velazquez’s blacks, one must speak of DuMond’s greens” - William H. Gerdts, American Impressionist Writer and Historian The American i...

“Of all the tools you’ll use in transparent watercolor, by far the most important one is your paper. Watercolor paper must be of good quality and have a perm...

This list could really be twelve places I’d like to paint before I stop, but I can scratch off two from the list - the Parthenon in Greece, which I did in Se...

"As first glimpsed from the edge of the abyss, the Grand Canyon is a geologic marvel and a spiritual emotion. Below is a primeval void, hemmed in every where...

I suggested to a student once, that he should purchase a good sable brush. I was a little embarrassed when I told him the price – sables start at $40 and som...

I always say, "Real men (real watercolorists) don't use white or art masking fluid." I work in a "pure" manner, and I don't...well hardly ever. So I was deli...

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden...

The Salmagundi Club in Manhattan has a unique collection. Numerous palettes of artists from the past adorn the walls above the library bookcases. The club fe...

"Has the music room dissolved, this morning, in the sunshine? I felt last night as though I were in a Hans Anderson Fairy Tale, ready to go on a flying carpe...