"Starting rough and not getting specific too early will allow you to keep your design ideas flexible... The more ideas and work you h...

"There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately ...

James Gurney responds to a reader's question regarding the color black and provides some very insightful information in the process: ...

"Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and pri...

"Another object of underpainting is the determining of the design of light and dark. All paint changes a little, lowers a little, wi...

"What sort of painting can a young fellow do at your age? Generally something mediocre as far as ideas go .... Do sketches, train you...

Couche is French for "paint layer," and in the context of classical technique, a couche is a thin layer of oil that you spread o...