The Studio Journal
An art commission is artwork made to order for a specific buyer. Here is how commissions work, what they cost, and what the artist and client each owe.
A juried art show is an exhibition where a judge selects the work from submitted entries. Here is how jurying works, what it costs, and how to enter one.
Yellow and blue make green, but the pigments decide the shade. Learn the exact yellows and blues that mix clean, natural greens in acrylics and oils.
How to mix colors in acrylic and oil: the three primaries, clean secondary recipes, your own browns and grays, and the undertone rule that stops mud.
Brown is neutralized color. Learn three reliable ways to mix warm, living browns from complements and primaries in acrylics and oils, and how to vary them.
Red and yellow make orange, but the pigments set the shade. Learn the exact reds and yellows that mix a bright, clean orange in acrylics and oils.

The most famous portrait paintings, from the Mona Lisa to American Gothic, and how each artist turned a single face into a lasting masterpiece.

The most famous watercolor paintings, from Durer's Young Hare to Turner's skies, and why great artists loved the one medium that forgives nothing.

The most famous still life paintings, from Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit to Cezanne's apples, and how painters turned ordinary objects into great art.

The most famous abstract paintings, from Kandinsky to Pollock and Rothko, and what each one discovered by letting go of the visible world.

The most famous female painters, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Frida Kahlo and Yayoi Kusama, and the work that secured each one a place in art history.

The most famous flower paintings, from Van Gogh's Sunflowers to Monet's Water Lilies, and what each one did with the oldest subject in art.

The most famous paintings in the world, from the Mona Lisa to The Starry Night, where each one lives, and why these particular works became icons.

The most famous landscape paintings, from Constable's Hay Wain to Monet's Impression Sunrise, and what each one taught painters about light, weather, and place.

The most famous self portraits in art history, from van Gogh to Frida Kahlo, and what each artist revealed by making their own face the subject.
Artist imposter syndrome is nearly universal and is not proof you are a fake. Why even skilled artists feel like frauds, and how to work through it.
How to know your art style: read it from the choices that repeat across your work, why it is hard to see from the inside, and the signs your style is emerging.
The most famous acrylic paintings, from Warhol's Marilyn Diptych to Hockney's A Bigger Splash, and the celebrated works people wrongly assume are acrylic.
How to clean oil and acrylic paint brushes the right way, including the dish soap method, a non-toxic walnut oil method, and how to store brushes so they last.

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