After hiking around Montana for two weeks last summer, New Mexico-based contemporary landscape artist, Kathleen Frank, gathered enough inspiration from her surroundings to return to the studio and ...

Claude Monet, famously known as the ‘Father of Impressionism’ was an exceptional artist whose wish to tread away from conventional art made him famous. Rejecting the straight lines, accurate anatomies ...

If you want oil paintings of aspen trees or cityscapes, Sparky Lebold is not your guy. But if you want traditional, richly textured landscapes of the sea, open spaces, rundown buildings, figures and ...

Oil painting is probably one of the most complicated, but also admired painting techniques. Oil painting is basically an art in itself as the artist needs to mix pigments with oil to create rich, ...

Wind and Snow in the Fir Pines, Li Shan (mid-12th to early 13th century), China, Jin dynasty, late 12th century Freer Gallery of Art The Shu River, traditionally attributed to Li Gonglin (ca.

Art is timeless and these 25 most famous paintings in the world are testaments to it. A piece of art can transcend the time it was created. The artist may not know it yet during the time he labors on ...

“Views of San Francisco,” a show of plein air oil paintings by Diana Jaye, opens Tuesday at Viewpoints Gallery in Los Altos. The exhibit will remain through Jan. 1. Jaye’s paintings, done on location ...