Inside My Watercolor Palette: Staining Brilliance, Subtle Granulation, and the Joy of Ceramic Wells
Subscribe A painter’s palette is a bit like a quiet confession — every color choice reveals something about how we see the world. Mine happens to be built on the luminous, syrup-rich flow of M. Graham watercolors, with a few well-chosen Daniel Smith granulators rounding out the texture side of things. I keep two palettes […]
John Frederick Kensett: Poet of Light and Quiet Shores
Subscribe John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872) occupies a serene, radiant corner of American art history. While often grouped with the Hudson River School, his work stands slightly apart—quieter, more distilled, almost contemplative. Where some of his contemporaries reached for drama and sweeping grandeur, Kensett seemed to prefer the hush of a shoreline at dusk, the stillness […]
Albert Bierstadt: The Showman Who Turned the American West Into a Cathedral of Light
Subscribe Some painters whisper. Some reflect quietly. And then there’s Albert Bierstadt, who steps onto the stage with the confidence of “Let there be light” and paints landscapes so vast you feel like you’re stepping into another world. If Asher Durand was the poet of the forest interior and Thomas Cole the philosopher, Bierstadt was […]