Velazquez has us standing high above the action in Old Woman Cooking Eggs , but I’ve never fully understood why, though we are clearly st...

Do we even know why we do things? How many times have I said I can't do something when what I really mean is that I don't want ...

The detail (above) from  Van Loo 's painting,  Marie Leszczinska Queen of France,  is fascinating to me. I've been trying to figu...

Anders Zorn  pursued light as the guiding principle of his art. Whether it was oil paint, watercolor, or etching, the expression of lig...

CGI studios  have a standard trick used for establishing the reflected light on digitally created images for movies. A...

I came across Vasari's text below and figured I'd make a quick video showing you how to "surpass greatly all other painters...

"The Printseller's Window'" Walter Goodman 1883 Nineteenth Century  Tall Grass Magicians   (so called because the...