1.Dip your large brush in water and then into your darkest color of paint (pthalo blue). With large horizontal strokes, start in the middle of your canvas and work your way up and down going back and ...

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PROVINCETOWN — “My work is full of climates,” the abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said. That helps explain a fertile decade of summers she spent in Provincetown in the 1950s and ’60s, where ...

Look at Jolene Powell's painting "Lonesome Valley: Trinity" up close, and it appears to be a chaotic series of random brush strokes. Step back, however, and the streaks of paint form a picture: a ...

It comes as something of a surprise to learn that the exhibition devoted to the English painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) It comes as something of a surprise to learn that the exhibition devoted to ...