If you love old paintings like I do then you will love this resource.  Wikipedia now has 10,000 + public domain paintings online.  Directmedia and  Yorck Project were kind enough to make these images available to Wikpedia and the world. http://commons.wikimedia.org

Jean-Léon Gérôme was a great 19th century French orientalist painter, draftsman & sculptor. He was born 11 May 1824 - died 1904. You can see more of his work at the Art Renewal Center.

I just found a nice resource today. You can browse and search 860,000 works of art from UK museums and galleries online.  http://www.artfund.org/artsaved/

Here is our second featured artist Jeffrey R. Watts. He is another very talented painter with a nice loose painterly style. You can see more of his work on his site JeffreyrWatts.com.

I found this article today about an art student using abortion as art. Its amazing where the ideas of modern art have taken us. Whats next murdering art students as art? "Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she ...

Howard Pyle was the most influential illustrator in American history. He was a prolific artist, writer and teacher. His students included Olive Rush, N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, and Jessie Willcox Smith. If you have not seen his work below is an example and some links. Links http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Howard_Pyle http://www.bpib.com/pyle.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Pyle Art Renewal Center

This post has a very long list of Free Art Books. You can see the entire list after the jump. Just hit  "more". Bridgman, George B., 1939. The Human Machine. http://www.archive.org/details/human...ethea009564mbp Bridgman, George B., 1920. Constructive anatomy http://www.archive.org/details/const...anat00briduoft Blake, Vernon, 1927. The Art And Craft Of Drawing http://www.archive.org/details/artan...ofdra027904mbp Crane, Walter, 1914. Line & Form. http://www.archive.org/details/lineform00cranuoft

This is the first of the free art book posts. I have found that there are many very good art books in the public domain. I will try and list links to them as I get the chance. The first book is The practice of oil painting and of drawing as ...

This is the first of our featured artist series of posts. With this series of posts we will shine the spotlight on outstanding artists both alive and dead. So to kick things off we are starting with Morgan Weistling a very much alive artist. Below is an example of his wonderful ...

I often get asked whats the best way to learn to draw the figure. The answer is to have the best teachers and to work really hard over a long period of time:) So I hear you say you are ready to put in the work - great. Now hear ...