Wild Impressions
“I want to leave something to the imagination…some mystery in the painting. I want to leave room for a viewer to participate.” Jim Morgan reached over and picked up an old canvas goose decoy, one of several near his paint-spattered easel. His latest work-in-progress,...
Mick Doellinger – Wildlife Sculptor
Mick Doellinger’s climb as a wildlife sculptor has been based on pure Outback adventure.
Artist Chad Poppleton
The artist has already achieved a distinctive style for conveying the spirit of each animal in his paintings.
A Call For Africa
Three talented artists are creating a spectacular tribute to a legendary African river and its wildlife.
Creating a Painting: John Seerey-Lester
Many things go into the creation of a painting.
Ever Ancient Ever New: The Still-Life
If any art is truly timeless, it is the still-life. The still-life does not depict a moment frozen in time, a chosen instant snatched from the temporal current, but a moment outside of time, beyond its erosive reach. There is no past or future, only an eternal...
Firmo Fracassi – Renaissance Man
Using only simple tools, Italy’s Firmo Fracassi achieves astonishing detail in his bulino-style engravings. If suffering is a muse for artistic genius, it came early in the life of Firmo Fracassi. Born in 1939 in Tavernole, a village nestled in Italy’s alpine hills...
In the Light
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 English...