In a recent interview on the Aart Podcast, artist Maria Josenhans highlighted the difference between painting a "postcard" and painting a...

Artist Shirazeh Houshiary remarked that there is a difference between art and advertising. Advertising, she says, tells us what to see....

I used to live in a world without beauty. It wasn't exactly an ugly world - of course there were flowers, nice houses, pink sunsets - but...

Last December I wrote about the importance of starting an art practice. I talked about my own practice at the time, in which I would wake...

My life has been defined by two polarities. On one side, there is the artist: the sensitive, intuitive creator who thinks in visual...

My winter holidays were filled with rest and time with family. It was a lot of fun, but it also meant that I ended up not painting for...

2022 was a productive year in my art practice. My proudest accomplishment of the year was completing 50 paintings in 50 days for a local...

A few years ago, my partner, Behrad, and I decided to summit Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the contiguous US. Although tall, it is...

Every weekday at 6am, I get up and paint for an hour and a half. In these morning sessions, my goal is not to make "art" - my goal is...

The creation myth of the Kabbalah states that at the beginning of time, God constructed several divine vessels filled with holy light and...

A few years ago, my friend introduced me to their friend who they said was an artist. I went to one of her shows, and I was really...

Lately I've been thinking a lot about rules. The rules other people people impose on us, but more importantly, the rules we impose on...

You know the feeling. You have an idea for a new creative project. You're excited, electrified by it. You dream about how it will turn...

In July I embarked on a new art challenge - to paint 50 paintings in 50 days. All the paintings would follow a theme, creating a cohesive...

There's an old story called Flatland about a society that exists in two dimensions. Its inhabitants are polygons and lines, and they move...

It's been over a year now since I moved to San Francisco, and in that time I've become transfixed by the city's unique beauty. As soon as...

For almost my entire art career, I thought of art as work. Art came from my own initiative, and I had to do everything to make it happen....

On March 29, I left Oviedo, a small city in northern Spain, and embarked upon the Camino Primitivo. It's a 200-mile stretch of paths,...

I experienced art block recently. Not an extreme case, but an unnerving one nonetheless. It started out with one bad painting - normal...

I used to be a serious perfectionist. This applied to all aspects of my life, including my art. At first I drew from my imagination, but...