6 Masters On How To Be An Artist

You can learn a lot from watching how other artists work, especially if they’re working in another medium. Figuring out how you work in similar ways to produce your own authentic works is an exercise in creativity itself. And creativity is like a muscle, the...

8 Masters On How To Be An Artist

You can learn a lot from watching how other artists work, especially if they’re working in another medium. Figuring out how you work in similar ways to produce your own authentic works is an exercise in creativity itself. And creativity is like a muscle, the...

6 Great Artists Show You How To Be An Artist

Georgia O’Keeffe We all learn a lot from each other. Artsy has featured a number of useful lessons that can be learned from great artists. Think of this less about learning to be an artist and more about learning to be more creative. You’re sure...

Join Me For My Free Artist Talk Online Tonight Aug 15 @ 08:30 PM EST

I’m giving a talk (for the Chicago Photo Forum) online tonight at 8:30 EST. Lasting about an hour, it’s really several short talks in one. I’ll share images, talk about key themes, discuss how writing works with my images, and then share a little bit...

Join Me For My Free Artist Talk Online Aug 15 @ 08:30 PM

Landscapes Within Landscapes & Process . Enjoy an evening of pure inspiration as artist/photographer/writer John Paul Caponigro illuminates his creative process – not just where and how, but also why. John Paul will show how he creates synergy between the diverse disciplines of drawing, photography,...

7 Things To Look For In Great Prints & Great Artists Who Make Exceptions

Classic prints exhibit sharp focus, extended depth of field, high dynamic range, pronounced contrast, and idealized color. Reduced dynamic range, often with greatly reduced saturation, sometimes with reduced sharpness, occasionally with vignetting, and infrequently material process artifacts, printed on matte surfaces at small scales classically...

The 5 Benefits Of Looking At Other Artist’s Works

“Build a large visual library.” is Howard Schatz’s excellent recommendation for photographers at any stage of their journey. For decades, he has continued to do this himself well into a highly successful career, consuming images voraciously. While he haunts bookstores, he doesn’t mean just buy...

Find More Inspiration & Deeper Value From Your Artistic Influences

  Ways Of Working With Influence   Why Tracking Your Influences Is So Important The 5 Benefits Of Looking At Other Artist’s Works State The Nature Of The Influence On You Simply – One Word, Phrase, Sentence Rank Your Influences Make A Timeline Of Your...

Art In The Making – Essays by Artists About What They Do 

Special Pre-Order Offers End March 15 This 350-page softcover book will contain 80 short, illustrated essays by makers working in a wide range of artistic and artisanal fields, offering a glimpse into the personal motivations, methods, and reasons that people continue to make artistic things...

The Great Animal Orchestra: Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists

The Great Animal Orchestra from United Visual Artists on Vimeo. . The Great Animal Orchestra on view at The Peabody Essex Museum November 20, 2021 through May 22, 2022 The Peabody Essex Museum and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are proud to present the...