George Rowlett is one of my favorite plein air painters. His Gallery has put up two videos showing the artist at work painting on the Outer Hebrides and East Kent earlier in March this year. In an older interview the artists said that he tries to paint as fast as he can. If you compare [...]

Today I want to point out to artist Mara Korkola and her small winter landscapes. The format is modest, but somehow the views she paints seem bigger. The presentation in triptych might give to that effect, but does not explain it in full. I like the clarity and stillness in these images which I have seen so [...]

Unfortunately I can’t remember where and how I found this film and the portfolio of the artist Alice Shirley.  The artist does amazing ink drawings. share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share with Stumblers Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

Lisbon, Alfama – one of my old oil paintings Liz Steel, sketching artist and architect living in Australia, has published a great urban sketchbook on her web log recently : my Lisbon Sketchbook. I commend not only to enjoy the beautiful sketches, but also to read the text. Liz has documented some very interesting thoughts [...]

Recently I stumbled on the website of Robert Perry,a British landscape painter who works in gouache. Mr. Perry has published an impressive video which shows him in action on location handling a large format gouache painting. In 1993 Mr. Perry put down his job as a teacher and became a full-time artist to support himself [...]

I am always on the hunt for tree and forest drawings. It seems that the topic is inexhaustible. The artist Lisa Oxley has made a remarkable contribution from my point of view with her charcoal drawings of trees (drawing 2). I have never seen something like that before. There is a great balance between the abstract [...]

As a fan of George Rowlett I found my way to the website of the London Artspace Gallery some years ago. I want to point out to a marvelous online catalogue the gallery put up to feature the painter Ray Atkins. Plein air painting is alive still! Here is the link to Ray Atkins, The [...]

Thanks to painting perceptions I learned about Stuart Shils a great painter and monotype printmaker. His portfolio of monotype prints is awesome. But do not miss to have a look at his drawings and sketches. Read here the interview with Stuart Shils on painting perceptions including a 2 part video showing the artist in making [...]