Jun 15, 2021
Virtual Figure Drawing Offers Artists Growth and Camaraderie During Pandemic
By Rowena Finn, CBF Literature Committee writer Every week, a mix of professional and emerging artists convened in a building in Norfolk,...
May 18, 2021
Nora Heysen – Driven and Purposeful
Written by Janelle Hatherly and Barbara Wintringham Nora Heysen was the fourth of eight children. Born in 1911, her German-born father,...
Apr 20, 2021
Sally Welles James Farnham (1869-1943)
By Blair Updike Born in 1869 into a socially and politically prominent New York family, Sally James Farnham used her connections to...
Mar 22, 2021
Eliza Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942)
Written by Luana Luconi Winner and edited by Lauren Harris Originally published in the 2nd Quarter 2006 The Art of the Portrait Journal...
Mar 16, 2021
Getting a Good Start - by Kyle Keith
I met Everett Raymond Kinstler just as I was completing my studies at the New York Academy of Art. My instructor at the time, Peter Cox,...
Feb 16, 2021
Contemporary Female Artist: Sadie Valeri
By Wendy Wagner Sadie Valeri has been an inspiration for me ever since I found her blog about ten years ago. In one of her blog posts,...
Jan 19, 2021
A final coat of varnish will both enhance and protect your finished oil paintings~ by John S. Walker
When I was growing up in South Carolina, my father had an art gallery where he principally dealt in antique paintings, much of it being...