Refine Your Motives If the career path of plein air painting shows, art fairs, or gallery representation does...

Creating a successful painting not only requires focus on technical skills such as drawing, color, values, edges, and...

How to deal with digital reference material In today’s Covid world, artists, like everyone else, have not been...

Did you know that OPA has been sharing artists’ blog posts for over ten years?  We have an extensive...

We are pleased to share this week’s blog from OPA Master artist Mary Qian.  Mary will be giving a...

Did you know that OPA has been sharing artists’ blog posts for over ten years?  We have an extensive...

I stumbled into painting the hunt by chance. My meandering path of artistic enthusiasms led me from landscape...

I recently saw for the second time, Searching for Sugarman.  It is a fascinating documentary of a musician,...

In a recent blog post a fellow artist labeled still life as a “lesser” genre of painting.  ...

Usually, I travel around the country giving painting demos and lecturing at art organizations. Not so during this...