In Marc Hanson’s personal hierarchy it will always be fine painting, not subject matter, that takes precedence. There’s a painting in Marc Hanson’s studio that fans of his art will probably never see. It’s a simple piece, really — a winter...
No art form can touch all people with the same force, but it would be hard to imagine a medium with more universal appeal than the bronze statue. It can be sculpted into a delicate hummingbird resting on a tabletop, heaped and hewn into a life-size grizzly guarding a...
It seems ironic that Jim Kasper would look at any painter’s life with envy. It would only seem natural to assume that the prime source of inspiration for an animal artist would be, well, animals. And Minnesota artist Jim Kasper has indeed been inspired by a host...
“To me, you should judge the painting by the emotion it creates.” About a year ago, South African artist Kobus Moller arrived at a crossroads in his career. Though demand for his work was high and he was making a comfortable living from his art, Kobus was...
“I decided awhile back that I wouldn’t paint any animal unless I’d seen it first.” It’s a dangerous trap to fall into, but I’d formed quite a few impressions about Michael Sieve through his paintings long before I ever met him. You hear...
The most profound influence on color, of course, is light. Without it, a prism is little more than a chunk of glass. Northern tribes like the Inuit have many words to describe what most of us simply call “snow.” The irony of such a vocabulary lapse — one...
“Many people have the basic ability to draw what they see. All children love to draw. It’s just that most lose interest in it for whatever reason. But I never did. I fell in love with art and the outdoors when I started fishing the stream by my house as a...
“Dennis identifies with big, powerful animals; the bold and the dangerous,” Smith says. “But he shows you some nuance of them that you’ve never seen. It’s like he knows we have some preconceived notion of what a certain animal is, so he...
