When I think of paintings that depict the life of Christ, I normally think about the Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch. Carl Bloch was one of the most important Danish artists of all time. One of Denmark’s greatest artists, Carl Bloch, almost did not become an artist. His parents wanted him to join the Navy,…
Procreate is a great app that you can use on your Apple iPad to lay out your paintings and help you become a better artist. There are a lot of great things about Procreate. Procreate will help save you time because it will help you plan your painting; you will not need to paint over…
I love to paint cats and dogs, so it is no surprise that I also like many paintings featuring cats or dogs. Cats, in particular, have had a role throughout history in many paintings. Many artists have used cats as subject matter in their paintings. Here are my top 15 picks of artwork that feature…
Many Artists may be like me, and what to know if it is really worth trying to sell your artwork on a site like Red Bubble? Like most art-selling website platforms, there is a lot of pros and cons involved in selling your artwork on a website like Red Bubble. Selling your artwork on Red…
Being an artist and running an art business is similar to being an entrepreneur. An artist must develop the same traits as many successful business people, but besides those traits, there are additional traits that are important for any artist to have and acquire. Some of the traits that any artist should try to acquire…
While most artists think about sales and their art, many do not think as much about branding their art business. But the truth is that branding your art business is as important and vital as the other aspects of your business. There are four steps that you can take to help you brand your art…
When you are starting your online art business it can seem to be a daunting task. After all, as an artist, the main thing you want to do is paint or do your artwork, but now suddenly you need to learn a host of new things to even get your business started. There are 4…
There is perhaps no other painting that stirs the emotions of so many Americans as the American Gothic painting painted by Grant Wood in 1930. From almost its outset, the American Gothic painting raised a host of emotions from positive to negative. Grant Wood’s painting, the American Gothic, has a Carpenter Gothic Style house with…
Few painters have affected the American Modernist movement as Georgia O’Keeffe, so she is called the Mother of American Modernist Painting. Not only was she a great and prolific painter, but she has left us an amazing legacy of her artwork. Georgia O’Keeffe was a dairy farm girl from Wisconsin who became one of America’s…
Being an artist and being able to handle criticism must go hand in hand. But this can also be one of the hardest things for most artists. I know it can be tough and disheartening if the criticism of my art comes from someone you love or care about deeply and you realize that they…