AVA Community Arts Center hosts a portraiture class for painters of all skill levels from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday. Tickets ...

A good portrait not only captures a likeness, but the person’s spirit, says Susan Durkee of Redding, adding, “It is that sense of spirit that viewers respond to, that gives them pleasure when they ...

The world was in shock when in 2001 the Talibans destroyed two ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan. Behind them, there are caves decorated with precious paintings from 5th to 9th century A.D. The ...

Alla prima, an Italian term meaning “first attempt,” is an oil painting technique where layers of paint are applied while still wet, usually quickly over the course of just a few hours rather than ...

The Department of Painting of the EHU-University of the Basque Country has come up with a multi-analytical methodology to identify the white haze ...

When oil painter Richard Abraham was growing up on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he’d spend time in his local library’s art section. Books on illustration and painting, he recalled, were right next to ...

Last week's column was actually begun as a general investigation of oil painting; I got side-tracked onto the subject of flax by a chance reference, in my encyclopedia, to the fact that South Dakota ...

An oil painting exhibition featuring Chinese color master Pan Yikui's works is currently being held at the China National Academy of Painting in Beijing. A representative painter of the second ...